Brooklyn, IL
How exposed is Brooklyn to wildfire?
USFS scores Brooklyn at the 18th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 231 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brooklyn at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Brooklyn's building exposure, zone by zone
Brooklyn rates 99.6% Minimal exposure against just 0.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 231 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Brooklyn against the rest of the country
Brooklyn's 58th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 18th 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, Brooklyn ranks 25,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 611 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brooklyn
Brooklyn's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brooklyn
Even with 99.6% of Brooklyn 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.
Where Brooklyn's figures come from
Brooklyn's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brooklyn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.