Hampton, IL
How exposed is Hampton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hampton lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,011 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hampton at the 43rd 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
78.4% of Hampton's 1,011 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 18.9% Direct and 2.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Hampton ranks
Compare Hampton's two percentiles: 93rd within Illinois, only 40th nationally — a gap of 53 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hampton ranks 18,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 109 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hampton
Hampton's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hampton's 78.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hampton's 18,900-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hampton, see the exposure-zones guide.