Hidalgo, IL
How exposed is Hidalgo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hidalgo at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 128 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hidalgo at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Where Hidalgo's buildings actually sit
Most of Hidalgo's buildings (82%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Hidalgo compares
Compare Hidalgo's two percentiles: 31st within Illinois, only 6th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hidalgo ranks 29,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,790 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 994 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Hidalgo and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Hidalgo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Hidalgo
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hidalgo (82% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 128 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hidalgo. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hidalgo, see the exposure-zones guide.