Bloomingdale, IL
How exposed is Bloomingdale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bloomingdale lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,581 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bloomingdale at the 27th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.6% of Bloomingdale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,581 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bloomingdale against the rest of the country
Bloomingdale's 77th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 28th 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, Bloomingdale ranks 22,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,087 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 336 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bloomingdale's moderate rating (28th 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
Even with 97.6% of Bloomingdale 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bloomingdale's 22,651-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bloomingdale, see the exposure-zones guide.