Panola, IL
How exposed is Panola to wildfire?
Panola's 46 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Panola at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Panola's building exposure, zone by zone
Panola rates 73.9% Minimal exposure against just 26.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 46 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Panola compares
There's little gap between Panola's 1st national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Panola ranks 31,326 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,019 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,356 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Panola
Panola's low wildfire rating (1st 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.
Hardening a home in Panola
Even with 73.9% of Panola outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Panola's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Panola's 31,326-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Panola's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.