Broadview, IL
Broadview, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Broadview lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,179 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Broadview at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.7% of Broadview's 4,179 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Broadview ranks
Within Illinois, Broadview ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Broadview ranks 20,289 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,071 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 179 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Broadview
Broadview's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.7% of Broadview 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 Broadview's 20,289-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Broadview, see the exposure-zones guide.