Huey, IL
Huey wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Huey at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 119 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Huey at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 19.3% of Huey's 119 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 80.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Huey ranks
There's little gap between Huey's 2nd national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huey ranks 30,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,185 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,218 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Huey
At the 2nd national percentile, Huey rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Huey's 80.7% 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.
Where Huey's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huey's 30,819-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Huey's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.