Hennepin, IL
How exposed is Hennepin to wildfire?
USFS scores Hennepin at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 555 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 Hennepin at the 34th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
555 buildings are counted in Hennepin, and 81.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.9% in Direct exposure or the 1.4% rated Minimal.
Where Hennepin ranks
Hennepin's 84th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 33rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hennepin ranks 21,075 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 229 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Hennepin and the insurance market
Hennepin's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Hennepin
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hennepin (81.6% 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
Hennepin's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hennepin, see the exposure-zones guide.