Seatonville, IL
Seatonville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Seatonville lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 259 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Seatonville at the 18th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Seatonville (56.4% of 259 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 43.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Seatonville ranks
Compare Seatonville's two percentiles: 56th within Illinois, only 17th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seatonville ranks 26,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 636 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Seatonville and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, Seatonville 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
Because 56.4% of Seatonville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Seatonville's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Seatonville, see the exposure-zones guide.