Ripley, IL
Ripley, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ripley lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 57 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ripley at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
57 buildings are counted in Ripley, and 52.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Ripley compares
Within Illinois, Ripley ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ripley ranks 26,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,737 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 655 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Ripley and the insurance market
Ripley'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.6% of Ripley in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 57 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ripley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ripley, see the exposure-zones guide.