Alhambra, IL
How exposed is Alhambra to wildfire?
USFS scores Alhambra at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 409 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alhambra at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Alhambra's buildings actually sit
Only 17.6% of Alhambra's 409 buildings carry Direct exposure and 13.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Alhambra against the rest of the country
Compare Alhambra's two percentiles: 34th within Illinois, only 7th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alhambra ranks 29,396 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,049 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 956 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Alhambra's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Alhambra
Alhambra's 69.2% 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.
Where Alhambra's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 409 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alhambra. The exposure-zones guide covers what Alhambra's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.