Prairie City, IL
How exposed is Prairie City to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Prairie City lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 303 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prairie City at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Prairie City's buildings actually sit
Only 8.3% of Prairie City's 303 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Prairie City against the rest of the country
Prairie City scores 1st nationally and 5th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prairie City ranks 31,351 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,535 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,363 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prairie City
At the 1st national percentile, Prairie 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.
Hardening a home in Prairie City
Prairie City's 91.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 303 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Prairie City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Prairie City, see the exposure-zones guide.