Riggston, IL
Riggston wildfire risk explained
Riggston sits at the 3rd 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 23 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riggston at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Riggston's buildings actually sit
Only 4.4% of Riggston's 23 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. This is a small settlement by building count — 23 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Riggston against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Riggston ranks higher (21st percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riggston ranks 30,505 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,146 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riggston
At the 3rd national percentile, Riggston rates low 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
Riggston's 95.7% 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.
Where Riggston's figures come from
Riggston's 3rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. Small places like Riggston (23 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.