Rosiclare, IL
How exposed is Rosiclare to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rosiclare lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 819 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 Rosiclare at the 45th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Rosiclare's building exposure, zone by zone
819 buildings are counted in Rosiclare, and 61.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 38.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Rosiclare compares
Compare Rosiclare's two percentiles: 95th within Illinois, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosiclare ranks 18,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 81 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 43rd national percentile, Rosiclare rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Rosiclare's 61.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Rosiclare's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rosiclare's 18,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosiclare's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.