Wyoming, IL
Wyoming, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wyoming at the 5th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 878 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wyoming at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Wyoming's buildings actually sit
Wyoming rates 91.3% Minimal exposure against just 8.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 878 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Wyoming against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Wyoming ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyoming ranks 30,063 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,923 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,067 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wyoming
At the 5th national percentile, Wyoming rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wyoming
Even with 91.3% of Wyoming 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 878 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wyoming. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wyoming, see the exposure-zones guide.