Thawville, IL
Thawville wildfire risk explained
Thawville's 203 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Thawville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Thawville's buildings actually sit
Thawville rates 90.2% Minimal exposure against just 9.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 203 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Thawville against the rest of the country
Thawville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thawville ranks 31,297 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,724 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,345 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 1st national percentile, Thawville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 90.2% of Thawville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Thawville's 31,297-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Thawville, see the exposure-zones guide.