Norris, IL
How exposed is Norris to wildfire?
Norris's 181 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norris at the 12th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Norris's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Norris's buildings (77.4% of 181) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Norris compares
Compare Norris's two percentiles: 47th within Illinois, only 12th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norris ranks 27,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,578 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 772 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Norris and the insurance market
Norris'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Norris's 77.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Norris'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 Norris, see the exposure-zones guide.