Willisville, IL
How exposed is Willisville to wildfire?
Willisville sits at the 33rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 412 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Willisville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Willisville (95.6% of 412 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Willisville ranks
Willisville's 84th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 33rd 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, Willisville ranks 21,138 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 234 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Willisville and the insurance market
Willisville's moderate wildfire rating (33rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Willisville
Because 95.6% of Willisville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Willisville's 21,138-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Willisville, see the exposure-zones guide.