Chicago Ridge, IL
How exposed is Chicago Ridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Chicago Ridge at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,081 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chicago Ridge at the 38th national percentile — 7 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chicago Ridge's buildings actually sit
Only 0% of Chicago Ridge's 4,081 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Chicago Ridge against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Chicago Ridge ranks higher (81st percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chicago Ridge ranks 21,642 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 269 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Chicago Ridge and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Chicago Ridge rates moderate 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
With 100% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chicago Ridge 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,081 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chicago Ridge. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chicago Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.