Sidell, IL
How exposed is Sidell to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sidell lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 447 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 Sidell at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Sidell's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sidell's buildings (93.1% of 447) 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 Sidell compares
There's little gap between Sidell's 1st national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sidell ranks 31,294 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,328 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,342 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Sidell and the insurance market
Sidell's low wildfire rating (1st 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 Sidell
Even with 93.1% of Sidell 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 447 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sidell. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sidell, see the exposure-zones guide.