Savanna, IL
Savanna wildfire risk explained
Savanna's 1,931 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Savanna at the 42nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Savanna's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 84.2% of Savanna's 1,931 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.1% Direct and 6.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Savanna compares
Within Illinois, Savanna ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Savanna ranks 18,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,674 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 87 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Savanna
At the 42nd national percentile, Savanna rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Savanna's 84.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Savanna's 18,332-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Savanna, see the exposure-zones guide.