Paris, IL
Paris, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Paris at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,687 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Paris at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 77.9% of Paris's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.5% Direct and 14.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,687 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Paris compares
Within Illinois, Paris ranks higher (44th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paris ranks 28,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,038 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 805 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Paris and the insurance market
Paris's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 77.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Paris gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Paris's 11th-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 Paris, see the exposure-zones guide.