Parkersburg, IL
How exposed is Parkersburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Parkersburg at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 194 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parkersburg at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Parkersburg's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 63.9% of Parkersburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 36.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Parkersburg compares
Compare Parkersburg's two percentiles: 29th within Illinois, only 5th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkersburg ranks 29,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,022 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parkersburg
Parkersburg's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Parkersburg
Parkersburg's 63.9% 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
Parkersburg's 5th-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 Parkersburg, see the exposure-zones guide.