Ewing, IL
How exposed is Ewing to wildfire?
Ewing's 222 buildings earn a 4th-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, Ewing's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Where Ewing's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 72.1% of Ewing's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 27.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Ewing ranks
Ewing's 26th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 4th 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, Ewing ranks 30,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,075 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Ewing and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Ewing rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 72.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ewing gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ewing's 30,120-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ewing, see the exposure-zones guide.