Bridgeport, IL
Bridgeport wildfire risk explained
Bridgeport's 1,293 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bridgeport at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Bridgeport's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.5% of Bridgeport's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Bridgeport ranks
Bridgeport's 40th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 9th 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, Bridgeport ranks 28,796 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,104 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 869 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bridgeport and the insurance market
Bridgeport's low wildfire rating (9th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 84.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bridgeport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bridgeport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bridgeport's 28,796-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bridgeport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.