Sauget, IL
Sauget wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sauget at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 760 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sauget's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Where Sauget's buildings actually sit
Sauget rates 96.5% Minimal exposure against just 2.5% Direct and 1.1% Indirect — of 760 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Sauget against the rest of the country
Compare Sauget's two percentiles: 45th within Illinois, only 11th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sauget ranks 28,104 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 801 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sauget
Sauget's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Sauget
Sauget's 96.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Sauget's figures come from
Sauget's 11th-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 Sauget's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.