Berwyn, IL
Berwyn, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Berwyn's 22,455 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Berwyn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Berwyn's buildings (100% of 22,455) 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. At 22,455 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Berwyn compares
Berwyn's 89th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 36th 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, Berwyn ranks 20,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 598 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 164 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berwyn
Berwyn's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Berwyn 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Berwyn's 20,035-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Berwyn, see the exposure-zones guide.