Kewanee, IL
How exposed is Kewanee to wildfire?
Kewanee's 7,016 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kewanee at the 11th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kewanee's buildings actually sit
94.7% of Kewanee's 7,016 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,016 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Kewanee against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Kewanee ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kewanee ranks 28,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 802 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kewanee
Kewanee's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kewanee 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,016 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kewanee. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kewanee, see the exposure-zones guide.