Teutopolis, IL
Teutopolis wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Teutopolis at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 975 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Teutopolis at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
79.9% of Teutopolis's 975 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Teutopolis compares
Teutopolis's 28th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 5th 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, Teutopolis ranks 29,968 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,105 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,040 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
Teutopolis's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Teutopolis's 79.9% 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 Teutopolis's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 975 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Teutopolis. The exposure-zones guide covers what Teutopolis's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.