Omaha, IL
How exposed is Omaha to wildfire?
Omaha sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 220 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Omaha at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Omaha's buildings actually sit
Omaha rates 74.1% Minimal exposure against just 25.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 220 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Omaha ranks
Within Illinois, Omaha ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (20th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Omaha ranks 25,144 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,117 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 551 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Omaha and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Omaha rates moderate 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
Even with 74.1% of Omaha outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 220 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Omaha. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Omaha, see the exposure-zones guide.