Lake Summerset, IL
Lake Summerset, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Summerset at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,427 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake Summerset's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lake Summerset's 1,427 counted buildings, 69.3% carry Direct exposure and only 30.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Lake Summerset against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Lake Summerset ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Summerset ranks 27,125 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 710 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Lake Summerset and the insurance market
Lake Summerset's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lake Summerset
With 69.3% of Lake Summerset in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Summerset's 27,125-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Summerset, see the exposure-zones guide.