Venedy, IL
How exposed is Venedy to wildfire?
Venedy's 132 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Venedy at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Venedy's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Venedy's buildings (82.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Venedy ranks
Compare Venedy's two percentiles: 36th within Illinois, only 7th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Venedy ranks 29,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,613 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 931 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Venedy
At the 7th national percentile, Venedy 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
Because 82.6% of Venedy's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Venedy's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Venedy, see the exposure-zones guide.