Mound City, IL
Mound City, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mound City lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 351 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mound City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 61% of Mound City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.8% Direct and 26.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mound City compares
Within Illinois, Mound City ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mound City ranks 22,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,276 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 317 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mound City
Mound City's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mound City's 61% 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 Mound City's 22,369-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mound City, see the exposure-zones guide.