Sciota, IL
Sciota wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sciota at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 96 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sciota's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Sciota's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sciota's buildings (89.6% of 96) 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 Sciota compares
Sciota'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, Sciota ranks 30,908 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,237 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
Sciota'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.
Hardening a home in Sciota
Sciota's 89.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
Sciota's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sciota, see the exposure-zones guide.