Calumet Park, IL
Calumet Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Calumet Park at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,638 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Calumet Park at the 45th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Calumet Park's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Calumet Park's 3,638 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Calumet Park compares
Compare Calumet Park's two percentiles: 93rd within Illinois, only 40th nationally — a gap of 53 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Calumet Park ranks 18,806 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,603 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 105 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Calumet Park and the insurance market
Calumet Park's elevated wildfire rating (40th 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.
Hardening a home in Calumet Park
With 100% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Calumet Park 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
Calumet Park's 40th-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 Calumet Park, see the exposure-zones guide.