Bedford Park, IL
Bedford Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bedford Park sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,428 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bedford Park at the 28th national percentile — 1 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
Most of Bedford Park's buildings (99.5% of 1,428) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Bedford Park ranks
Within Illinois, Bedford Park ranks higher (74th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bedford Park ranks 23,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,484 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 372 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bedford Park
Bedford Park's moderate rating (26th 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
Bedford Park's 99.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bedford Park's 23,184-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bedford Park, see the exposure-zones guide.