Pinckneyville, IL
How exposed is Pinckneyville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pinckneyville at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,373 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 Pinckneyville at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Pinckneyville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pinckneyville (81.9% of 2,373 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 12.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Pinckneyville against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Pinckneyville ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pinckneyville ranks 23,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,563 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 438 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Pinckneyville and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Pinckneyville rates moderate 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
Because 81.9% of Pinckneyville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,373 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pinckneyville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pinckneyville, see the exposure-zones guide.