Bensenville, IL
Bensenville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bensenville at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,385 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 Bensenville at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Bensenville's buildings actually sit
Only 1.1% of Bensenville's 6,385 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,385 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bensenville compares
Bensenville's 52nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 14th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bensenville ranks 27,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 698 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bensenville
Bensenville's low rating (14th 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 Bensenville
With 98.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bensenville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bensenville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,385 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bensenville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bensenville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.