Mount Olive, IL
Mount Olive, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mount Olive lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,429 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Olive at the 12th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Mount Olive's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.7% of Mount Olive's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.3% Direct and 0.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Mount Olive ranks
Mount Olive's 46th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 12th 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, Mount Olive ranks 27,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,479 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 777 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Olive
Mount Olive's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Mount Olive
With 94.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Olive 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 Olive's 12th-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 Olive, see the exposure-zones guide.