Sesser, IL
Sesser, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sesser's 1,345 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sesser at the 23rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sesser's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 21% of Sesser's 1,345 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Sesser compares
Within Illinois, Sesser ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sesser ranks 24,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,855 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 490 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
Sesser's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 79% of Sesser outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sesser's 24,449-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sesser, see the exposure-zones guide.