Hodgkins, IL
How exposed is Hodgkins to wildfire?
Hodgkins's 999 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hodgkins at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Hodgkins's buildings actually sit
Only 1.8% of Hodgkins's 999 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Hodgkins against the rest of the country
Compare Hodgkins's two percentiles: 88th within Illinois, only 36th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hodgkins ranks 20,223 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 175 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Hodgkins and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Hodgkins rates moderate 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 Hodgkins
Hodgkins's 98.2% 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
Hodgkins's 36th-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 Hodgkins, see the exposure-zones guide.