Meyer, IL
Meyer wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Meyer at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 40 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Meyer at the 22nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Meyer's building exposure, zone by zone
82.5% of Meyer's 40 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 17.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Meyer compares
Meyer's 66th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 22nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meyer ranks 24,637 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 501 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Meyer's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Meyer gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Meyer's 24,637-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Meyer, see the exposure-zones guide.