Old Shawneetown, IL
Old Shawneetown wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Old Shawneetown at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 169 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Old Shawneetown at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Old Shawneetown's buildings actually sit
169 buildings are counted in Old Shawneetown, and 70.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 29.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Old Shawneetown against the rest of the country
Compare Old Shawneetown's two percentiles: 67th within Illinois, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Old Shawneetown ranks 24,322 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 479 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 23rd national percentile, Old Shawneetown rates moderate 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 Old Shawneetown
Because 70.4% of Old Shawneetown'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Old Shawneetown's 24,322-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Old Shawneetown, see the exposure-zones guide.