Rossville, IL
How exposed is Rossville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rossville at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 972 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rossville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Rossville's buildings (79.1% of 972) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Rossville compares
Rossville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rossville ranks 30,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,244 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Rossville and the insurance market
Rossville's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 79.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rossville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rossville's 30,944-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rossville, see the exposure-zones guide.