Hettick, IL
Hettick, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hettick lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 154 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 Hettick at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hettick (67.5% of 154 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 32.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Hettick compares
Hettick's 64th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 21st 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, Hettick ranks 24,921 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,695 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 526 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hettick
Hettick's moderate rating (21st 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
Hettick's 67.5% 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 Hettick's 24,921-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hettick, see the exposure-zones guide.