Taylorville, IL
Taylorville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Taylorville's 6,103 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Taylorville at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Taylorville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Taylorville's buildings (93.7% of 6,103) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,103 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Taylorville compares
Taylorville's 58th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 18th 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, Taylorville ranks 25,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,837 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 610 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Taylorville and the insurance market
Taylorville's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
Hardening a home in Taylorville
Taylorville's 93.7% 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 Taylorville's figures come from
Taylorville's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Taylorville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.