Winfield, IL
Winfield wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Winfield at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,396 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 5.4% of Winfield's 3,396 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Winfield compares
Winfield's 80th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 30th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winfield ranks 21,960 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,924 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 288 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winfield
Winfield's moderate rating (30th 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 94.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Winfield 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,396 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Winfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Winfield, see the exposure-zones guide.