Lomax, IL
Lomax wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lomax at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 331 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 Lomax at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Lomax's building exposure, zone by zone
95.5% of Lomax's 331 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 4.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Lomax compares
Compare Lomax's two percentiles: 83rd within Illinois, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lomax ranks 21,298 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 247 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lomax
Lomax's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
Hardening a home in Lomax
Lomax's 95.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lomax's 32nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lomax, see the exposure-zones guide.