Jewett, IL
How exposed is Jewett to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jewett lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 190 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jewett's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Jewett's building exposure, zone by zone
190 buildings are counted in Jewett, and 66.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Jewett compares
Within Illinois, Jewett ranks higher (48th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jewett ranks 27,600 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 760 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Jewett and the insurance market
Jewett's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 66.3% of Jewett's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 190 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jewett. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jewett, see the exposure-zones guide.