Hillcrest, IL
How exposed is Hillcrest to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hillcrest at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 581 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hillcrest's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Hillcrest's buildings actually sit
89% of Hillcrest's 581 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Hillcrest compares
Hillcrest's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillcrest ranks 31,286 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,091 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,334 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillcrest
At the 1st national percentile, Hillcrest 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 Hillcrest
With 89% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hillcrest gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Hillcrest's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hillcrest, see the exposure-zones guide.