Preemption, IL
Preemption, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Preemption's 208 buildings earn a 13th-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 Preemption at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Preemption rates 83.7% Minimal exposure against just 16.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 208 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Preemption compares
Within Illinois, Preemption ranks higher (48th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Preemption ranks 27,446 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,547 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 747 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
Preemption'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.
Hardening a home in Preemption
Even with 83.7% of Preemption outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Preemption's 27,446-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Preemption, see the exposure-zones guide.