Hopedale, IL
How exposed is Hopedale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hopedale lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 512 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hopedale at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hopedale's buildings (91.8% of 512) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Hopedale ranks
Compare Hopedale's two percentiles: 44th within Illinois, only 10th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hopedale ranks 28,291 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,147 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 811 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 10th national percentile, Hopedale rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hopedale 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
Hopedale's 10th-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 Hopedale, see the exposure-zones guide.