Tampico, IL
Tampico, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tampico at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 497 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tampico at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.7% of Tampico's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Tampico ranks
Tampico scores 1st nationally and 11th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tampico ranks 31,103 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,402 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,291 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tampico
Tampico'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tampico gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Tampico's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tampico, see the exposure-zones guide.