Brighton, IL
Brighton, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brighton sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,226 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brighton at the 15th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brighton's building exposure, zone by zone
Brighton rates 87.1% Minimal exposure against just 12.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,226 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Brighton compares
Brighton's 52nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 14th 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, Brighton ranks 27,062 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 701 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
At the 14th national percentile, Brighton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Brighton's 87.1% 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
Brighton's 14th-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 Brighton, see the exposure-zones guide.