Mount Erie, IL
How exposed is Mount Erie to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mount Erie lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 133 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Erie at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Erie's buildings actually sit
Most of Mount Erie's buildings (68.4% of 133) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Mount Erie ranks
Mount Erie's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Erie ranks 31,008 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,572 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,261 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
At the 2nd national percentile, Mount Erie rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 68.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Erie 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
Mount Erie's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mount Erie, see the exposure-zones guide.