New Haven, IL
How exposed is New Haven to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Haven lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 328 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 New Haven at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
New Haven's building exposure, zone by zone
Of New Haven's 328 counted buildings, 57.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where New Haven ranks
New Haven's 71st-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 25th 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, New Haven ranks 23,659 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 418 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
New Haven and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, New Haven rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
New Haven's 57.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Haven's 23,659-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Haven, see the exposure-zones guide.