South Roxana, IL
How exposed is South Roxana to wildfire?
South Roxana sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,154 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Roxana at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
93.6% of South Roxana's 1,154 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How South Roxana compares
Within Illinois, South Roxana ranks higher (34th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Roxana ranks 29,428 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,920 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 961 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
South Roxana and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, South Roxana rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in South Roxana
South Roxana's 93.6% 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 1,154 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Roxana. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond South Roxana, see the exposure-zones guide.