Dixmoor, IL
Dixmoor, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dixmoor at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,792 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dixmoor at the 49th national percentile — 3 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
Most of Dixmoor's buildings (99.1% of 1,792) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Dixmoor compares
Dixmoor's 97th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 46th 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, Dixmoor ranks 16,950 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,093 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 45 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dixmoor
Dixmoor's elevated rating (46th 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 Dixmoor
Even with 99.1% of Dixmoor 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dixmoor's 16,950-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dixmoor, see the exposure-zones guide.