Princeville, IL
Princeville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Princeville sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 993 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Princeville at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Princeville rates 88.6% Minimal exposure against just 11.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 993 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Princeville compares
Compare Princeville's two percentiles: 26th within Illinois, only 5th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Princeville ranks 30,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,987 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,072 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
Princeville's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
Hardening a home in Princeville
Even with 88.6% of Princeville 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.
Where Princeville's figures come from
Princeville's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Princeville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.