Hazel Crest, IL
Hazel Crest wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hazel Crest lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,981 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hazel Crest at the 55th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.6% of Hazel Crest's 4,981 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Hazel Crest ranks
Within Illinois, Hazel Crest ranks higher (100th percentile) than it does nationally (54th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hazel Crest ranks 14,489 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,439 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 6 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Hazel Crest's elevated rating (54th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hazel Crest's 99.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,981 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hazel Crest. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hazel Crest, see the exposure-zones guide.