Alsip, IL
How exposed is Alsip to wildfire?
Alsip's 8,179 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alsip's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 46th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.8% of Alsip's 8,179 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 8,179 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Alsip against the rest of the country
Compare Alsip's two percentiles: 95th within Illinois, only 44th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alsip ranks 17,769 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,050 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 65 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Alsip and the insurance market
Alsip's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.8% of Alsip 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 8,179 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alsip. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Alsip, see the exposure-zones guide.