De Witt, IL
De Witt wildfire risk explained
USFS scores De Witt at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts De Witt at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where De Witt's buildings actually sit
Only 13.7% of De Witt's 161 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How De Witt compares
Within Illinois, De Witt ranks higher (36th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, De Witt ranks 29,176 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 921 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
De Witt and the insurance market
De Witt'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.
Hardening a home in De Witt
Even with 86.3% of De Witt 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind De Witt's 29,176-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond De Witt, see the exposure-zones guide.