Russellville, IL
Russellville wildfire risk explained
Russellville's 108 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Russellville at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Russellville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 50% of Russellville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 50% Minimal share — a profile where 54 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Russellville against the rest of the country
Russellville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (17th 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, Russellville ranks 30,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,211 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Russellville and the insurance market
Russellville's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 50% of Russellville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Russellville's 30,787-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Russellville, see the exposure-zones guide.