Lewistown, IL
How exposed is Lewistown to wildfire?
USFS scores Lewistown at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,529 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lewistown at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Where Lewistown's buildings actually sit
60.5% of Lewistown's 1,529 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.6% Direct and 25.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Lewistown compares
Compare Lewistown's two percentiles: 60th within Illinois, only 19th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lewistown ranks 25,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,042 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 585 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lewistown
At the 19th national percentile, Lewistown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.5% of Lewistown'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.
Where Lewistown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,529 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lewistown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lewistown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.