Countryside, IL
Countryside, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Countryside lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,580 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Countryside at the 32nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Countryside's buildings actually sit
Countryside rates 98.1% Minimal exposure against just 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,580 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Countryside compares
Within Illinois, Countryside ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Countryside ranks 22,367 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,139 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 315 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Countryside
Countryside's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 98.1% of Countryside 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 Countryside's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Countryside's 22,367-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Countryside's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.