East Brooklyn, IL
How exposed is East Brooklyn to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Brooklyn at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 73 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Brooklyn at the 43rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East Brooklyn's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 87.7% of East Brooklyn's 73 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
East Brooklyn against the rest of the country
Compare East Brooklyn's two percentiles: 95th within Illinois, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Brooklyn ranks 17,895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,164 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 72 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Brooklyn
East Brooklyn's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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 East Brooklyn
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in East Brooklyn (87.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 73 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Brooklyn. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Brooklyn, see the exposure-zones guide.