Prestbury, IL
How exposed is Prestbury to wildfire?
Prestbury sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 591 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prestbury at the 25th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Prestbury's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.5% of Prestbury's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Prestbury ranks
Compare Prestbury's two percentiles: 69th within Illinois, only 24th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prestbury ranks 24,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,947 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 453 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prestbury
At the 24th national percentile, Prestbury rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 90.5% of Prestbury 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 591 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Prestbury. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Prestbury, see the exposure-zones guide.