Hillside, IL
How exposed is Hillside to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hillside lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,776 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 Hillside at the 34th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Hillside's building exposure, zone by zone
99.8% of Hillside's 3,776 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Hillside compares
Within Illinois, Hillside ranks higher (80th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillside ranks 21,989 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,446 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 289 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
At the 30th national percentile, Hillside rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Hillside's 99.8% 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
Hillside's 30th-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 Hillside, see the exposure-zones guide.