Edgewood, IL
How exposed is Edgewood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Edgewood lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 401 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Edgewood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Edgewood rates 45.6% Minimal exposure against just 20.7% Direct and 33.7% Indirect — of 401 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Edgewood against the rest of the country
Compare Edgewood's two percentiles: 39th within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgewood ranks 28,830 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,184 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 877 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Edgewood and the insurance market
Edgewood's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 45.6% of Edgewood 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 401 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Edgewood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edgewood, see the exposure-zones guide.