Bonnie Brae, IL
Bonnie Brae, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bonnie Brae sits at the 34th 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 604 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bonnie Brae at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Bonnie Brae's building exposure, zone by zone
Bonnie Brae rates 99.5% Minimal exposure against just 0.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 604 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Bonnie Brae against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Bonnie Brae ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bonnie Brae ranks 20,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 203 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bonnie Brae and the insurance market
At the 34th national percentile, Bonnie Brae rates moderate 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
Bonnie Brae'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
Bonnie Brae's 34th-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 Bonnie Brae, see the exposure-zones guide.