Crestwood, IL
How exposed is Crestwood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Crestwood lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,355 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crestwood at the 51st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Crestwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.2% of Crestwood's 4,355 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Crestwood compares
Crestwood's 98th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 49th 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, Crestwood ranks 16,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 29 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crestwood
Crestwood's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Crestwood 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crestwood's 16,126-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crestwood, see the exposure-zones guide.