Valmeyer, IL
How exposed is Valmeyer to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valmeyer at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 530 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valmeyer at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Valmeyer's building exposure, zone by zone
530 buildings are counted in Valmeyer, and 74.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Valmeyer compares
Valmeyer's 68th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 23rd 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, Valmeyer ranks 24,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 471 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valmeyer
At the 23rd national percentile, Valmeyer rates moderate 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
Valmeyer's 74.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Valmeyer's figures come from
Valmeyer's 23rd-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 Valmeyer's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.