Witt, IL
How exposed is Witt to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Witt lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 681 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Witt at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.7% of Witt's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Witt against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Witt ranks higher (18th percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Witt ranks 30,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,193 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Witt
At the 3rd national percentile, Witt rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Witt's 89.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 681 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Witt. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Witt, see the exposure-zones guide.