Homewood, IL
Homewood, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Homewood's 8,012 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Homewood at the 50th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Homewood's buildings actually sit
Most of Homewood's buildings (98.4% of 8,012) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 8,012 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Homewood against the rest of the country
Compare Homewood's two percentiles: 97th within Illinois, only 47th nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homewood ranks 16,822 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,107 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 41 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Homewood and the insurance market
Homewood's elevated rating (47th 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
With 98.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Homewood 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
Homewood's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Homewood, see the exposure-zones guide.