Nauvoo, IL
How exposed is Nauvoo to wildfire?
USFS scores Nauvoo at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 888 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nauvoo at the 42nd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Nauvoo's building exposure, zone by zone
Nauvoo rates 85.4% Minimal exposure against just 14.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 888 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Nauvoo against the rest of the country
Compare Nauvoo's two percentiles: 94th within Illinois, only 41st nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nauvoo ranks 18,459 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,830 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 91 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Nauvoo and the insurance market
At the 41st national percentile, Nauvoo rates elevated 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 85.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Nauvoo gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Nauvoo's figures come from
Nauvoo's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nauvoo's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.