Stillman Valley, IL
Stillman Valley, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Stillman Valley at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 581 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Stillman Valley at the 9th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 5.7% of Stillman Valley's 581 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Stillman Valley ranks
Compare Stillman Valley's two percentiles: 41st within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 32 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stillman Valley ranks 28,608 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,092 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 853 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 9th national percentile, Stillman Valley 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 Stillman Valley
Stillman Valley's 94.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 581 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stillman Valley. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Stillman Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.