Prophetstown, IL
Prophetstown, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Prophetstown's 1,195 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prophetstown at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Prophetstown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 15.2% of Prophetstown's 1,195 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Prophetstown compares
Within Illinois, Prophetstown ranks higher (33rd percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prophetstown ranks 29,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,675 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 975 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
At the 6th national percentile, Prophetstown 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 Prophetstown
Even with 84.8% of Prophetstown 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
Prophetstown's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Prophetstown, see the exposure-zones guide.