Pittsfield, IL
How exposed is Pittsfield to wildfire?
Pittsfield's 2,587 buildings earn a 19th-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 Pittsfield at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 95.3% of Pittsfield's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Pittsfield compares
Within Illinois, Pittsfield ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsfield ranks 25,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,126 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 586 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pittsfield's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 95.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pittsfield 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 Pittsfield's 25,583-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pittsfield, see the exposure-zones guide.