Brimfield, IL
How exposed is Brimfield to wildfire?
USFS scores Brimfield at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 563 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brimfield at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brimfield's building exposure, zone by zone
563 buildings are counted in Brimfield, and 69.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.4% in Direct exposure or the 26.5% rated Minimal.
Brimfield against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Brimfield ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brimfield ranks 29,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 939 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Brimfield and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Brimfield 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
Brimfield's 69.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brimfield's 29,299-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brimfield, see the exposure-zones guide.