Kinmundy, IL
How exposed is Kinmundy to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kinmundy lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 516 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kinmundy at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Kinmundy: 49.6% of its 516 buildings, versus 2.9% Indirect and 47.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Kinmundy ranks
Compare Kinmundy's two percentiles: 58th within Illinois, only 18th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kinmundy ranks 25,930 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,083 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 609 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Kinmundy and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Kinmundy rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Kinmundy
Kinmundy's 49.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Kinmundy's figures come from
Kinmundy's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kinmundy's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.