Crest Hill, IL
Crest Hill wildfire risk explained
Crest Hill sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,098 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crest Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Crest Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.3% of Crest Hill's 6,098 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,098 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Crest Hill compares
Compare Crest Hill's two percentiles: 77th within Illinois, only 28th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crest Hill ranks 22,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,840 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 330 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crest Hill
Crest Hill's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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 Crest Hill
With 97.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Crest Hill gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Crest Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,098 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crest Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crest Hill's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.