Ashkum, IL
How exposed is Ashkum to wildfire?
Ashkum's 461 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ashkum's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
Where Ashkum's buildings actually sit
Ashkum rates 92.4% Minimal exposure against just 7.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 461 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Ashkum compares
Ashkum's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (0th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashkum ranks 31,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,042 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,419 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
Ashkum's low rating (0th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Ashkum
Ashkum's 92.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ashkum's 31,476-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ashkum, see the exposure-zones guide.