Wilmington (Greene), IL
Wilmington (Greene) wildfire risk explained
Wilmington (Greene)'s 115 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilmington (Greene) at the 24th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Wilmington (Greene) (50.4% of 115 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 49.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Wilmington (Greene) compares
Compare Wilmington (Greene)'s two percentiles: 69th within Illinois, only 24th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilmington (Greene) ranks 24,008 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,404 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 455 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
Wilmington (Greene)'s moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 50.4% of Wilmington (Greene)'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 Wilmington (Greene)'s 24,008-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wilmington (Greene), see the exposure-zones guide.