Piper City, IL
Piper City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Piper City lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 557 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Piper City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 7.4% of Piper City's 557 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Piper City against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Piper City's 1st national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piper City ranks 31,327 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,357 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Piper City
At the 1st national percentile, Piper City rates low 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
With 92.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Piper City 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Piper City's 31,327-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Piper City, see the exposure-zones guide.