Brookfield, IL
Brookfield, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brookfield at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 10,597 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookfield at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.7% of Brookfield's 10,597 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. At 10,597 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Brookfield compares
Brookfield's 87th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 35th 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, Brookfield ranks 20,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,509 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 183 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookfield
Brookfield's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brookfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookfield's 20,382-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brookfield, see the exposure-zones guide.