Sailor Springs, IL
How exposed is Sailor Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Sailor Springs at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 107 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sailor Springs at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sailor Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 36.5% of Sailor Springs's 107 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 63.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Sailor Springs ranks
There's little gap between Sailor Springs's 1st national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sailor Springs ranks 31,231 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,323 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 1st national percentile, Sailor Springs rates low 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
With 63.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sailor Springs gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Sailor Springs's figures come from
Sailor Springs's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sailor Springs's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.