Sidney, IL
How exposed is Sidney to wildfire?
USFS scores Sidney at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 749 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sidney's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Sidney's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 91.3% of Sidney's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Sidney against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Sidney ranks higher (22nd percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sidney ranks 30,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,134 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sidney
Sidney's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Sidney's 91.3% 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.
Where Sidney's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sidney's 30,470-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sidney's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.