Wamac, IL
Wamac, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wamac's 815 buildings earn a 11th-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 Wamac at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Wamac's buildings actually sit
Wamac rates 78.2% Minimal exposure against just 4.9% Direct and 16.9% Indirect — of 815 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Wamac ranks
Within Illinois, Wamac ranks higher (44th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wamac ranks 28,164 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,501 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 804 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Wamac and the insurance market
Wamac's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 78.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wamac gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Wamac's figures come from
Wamac's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wamac's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.