Simpson, IL
How exposed is Simpson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Simpson lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 56 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 Simpson at the 47th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Simpson's buildings actually sit
Of Simpson's 56 counted buildings, 83.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Simpson against the rest of the country
Simpson's 96th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 44th 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, Simpson ranks 17,607 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 62 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Simpson and the insurance market
Simpson's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Simpson
With 83.9% of Simpson in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Simpson's 17,607-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Simpson, see the exposure-zones guide.