Villa Grove, IL
Villa Grove, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Villa Grove's 1,475 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Villa Grove at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Villa Grove's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.9% of Villa Grove's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Villa Grove compares
Villa Grove's 18th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 3rd 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, Villa Grove ranks 30,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,282 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,192 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Villa Grove and the insurance market
At the 3rd national percentile, Villa Grove rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Villa Grove
Even with 94.9% of Villa Grove 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,475 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Villa Grove. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Villa Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.