Dewey, IL
How exposed is Dewey to wildfire?
USFS scores Dewey at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 99 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 Dewey at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Dewey's building exposure, zone by zone
Dewey rates 100% Minimal exposure against just 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 99 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Dewey compares
Dewey's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dewey ranks 31,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,070 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,301 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Dewey and the insurance market
Dewey's low rating (1st 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
Even with 100% of Dewey 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.
Where Dewey's figures come from
Dewey's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dewey's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.