Plymouth, IL
Plymouth wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Plymouth lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 387 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Plymouth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Where Plymouth's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 96.1% of Plymouth's 387 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 3.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Plymouth compares
Compare Plymouth's two percentiles: 50th within Illinois, only 13th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plymouth ranks 27,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,464 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 729 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plymouth
Plymouth's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 96.1% of Plymouth'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plymouth's 27,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Plymouth, see the exposure-zones guide.