Bentley, IL
How exposed is Bentley to wildfire?
USFS scores Bentley at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 55 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bentley at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bentley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.8% of Bentley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Bentley ranks
Bentley scores 3rd nationally and 17th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bentley ranks 30,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,194 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bentley
At the 3rd national percentile, Bentley rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 81.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bentley gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Bentley's 3rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bentley, see the exposure-zones guide.