Quincy, IL
How exposed is Quincy to wildfire?
Quincy's 20,346 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Quincy at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Quincy's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.2% of Quincy's 20,346 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 20,346 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Quincy against the rest of the country
Compare Quincy's two percentiles: 75th within Illinois, only 27th nationally — a gap of 48 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quincy ranks 23,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 693 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 364 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quincy
Quincy's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Quincy's 93.8% 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
Quincy's 27th-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 Quincy, see the exposure-zones guide.