Custer Park, IL
Custer Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Custer Park at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 77 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Custer Park at the 25th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
52% of Custer Park's 77 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 48.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Custer Park against the rest of the country
Compare Custer Park's two percentiles: 70th within Illinois, only 24th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Custer Park ranks 23,821 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 432 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Custer Park
Custer Park's moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Custer Park
Custer Park's 52% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Custer Park's 23,821-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Custer Park, see the exposure-zones guide.