Sibley, IL
Sibley, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sibley at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 275 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sibley at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sibley's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.6% of Sibley's 275 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Sibley ranks
Sibley's 24th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 4th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sibley ranks 30,281 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,351 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,104 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sibley
Sibley's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Sibley's 89.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 275 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sibley. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sibley, see the exposure-zones guide.