Mount Sterling, IL
Mount Sterling, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mount Sterling at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,197 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Sterling's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Mount Sterling's buildings actually sit
Most of Mount Sterling's buildings (98.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Mount Sterling ranks
Mount Sterling's 43rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 10th 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 Sterling ranks 28,420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,659 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 828 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Sterling
At the 10th national percentile, Mount Sterling 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 Mount Sterling
Because 98.8% of Mount Sterling's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mount Sterling's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mount Sterling, see the exposure-zones guide.