Richview, IL
How exposed is Richview to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Richview at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 255 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Richview's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
Where Richview's buildings actually sit
Most of Richview's buildings (54.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Richview compares
Compare Richview's two percentiles: 55th within Illinois, only 16th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Richview ranks 26,432 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 654 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Richview and the insurance market
Richview's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.1% of Richview's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 255 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Richview. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Richview, see the exposure-zones guide.