Milledgeville, IL
Milledgeville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Milledgeville's 754 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Milledgeville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Milledgeville rates 92.3% Minimal exposure against just 7.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 754 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Milledgeville compares
There's little gap between Milledgeville's 2nd national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milledgeville ranks 30,848 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,225 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Milledgeville
At the 2nd national percentile, Milledgeville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Milledgeville
With 92.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Milledgeville 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 754 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milledgeville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milledgeville, see the exposure-zones guide.