New Minden, IL
How exposed is New Minden to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Minden lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 177 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Minden's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
New Minden's building exposure, zone by zone
New Minden rates 72.3% Minimal exposure against just 27.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 177 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How New Minden compares
New Minden's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (14th 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, New Minden ranks 30,977 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,252 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Minden
At the 2nd national percentile, New Minden rates low 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 Minden's 72.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where New Minden's figures come from
New Minden's 2nd-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 New Minden's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.