Venice, IL
Venice, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Venice at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 952 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Venice at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Venice's building exposure, zone by zone
99.9% of Venice's 952 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Venice against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Venice ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Venice ranks 26,815 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 680 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 15th national percentile, Venice rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.9% of Venice 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 Venice's 26,815-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Venice, see the exposure-zones guide.