Millington, IL
How exposed is Millington to wildfire?
Millington's 378 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Millington at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 48.2% of Millington's 378 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 51.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Millington ranks
Millington's 53rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 15th 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, Millington ranks 26,877 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,682 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 686 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Millington
Millington's low wildfire rating (15th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Millington
Millington's 51.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Millington's 26,877-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Millington, see the exposure-zones guide.