Shumway, IL
Shumway, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Shumway's 184 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shumway at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 71.7% of Shumway's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 28.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Shumway against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Shumway ranks higher (25th percentile) than it does nationally (4th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shumway ranks 30,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,455 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,084 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shumway
Shumway's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 71.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Shumway gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Shumway's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shumway, see the exposure-zones guide.