Dolton, IL
How exposed is Dolton to wildfire?
USFS scores Dolton at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 11,260 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dolton at the 55th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Where Dolton's buildings actually sit
Only 0.3% of Dolton's 11,260 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 11,260 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Dolton against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Dolton ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dolton ranks 15,060 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,405 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 15 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dolton
Dolton's elevated rating (52nd 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 Dolton
Dolton's 99.7% 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.
Where Dolton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dolton's 15,060-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dolton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.