Xenia, IL
Xenia, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Xenia at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 347 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Xenia at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
37.5% of Xenia's 347 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.3% Direct and 32.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Xenia ranks
Xenia's 36th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 7th 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, Xenia ranks 29,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,391 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 929 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Xenia
Xenia's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 37.5% of Xenia'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
Xenia'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 Xenia, see the exposure-zones guide.