Maywood, IL
Maywood, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Maywood at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 9,125 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 Maywood at the 42nd percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Maywood's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Maywood's buildings (100% of 9,125) 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. At 9,125 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Maywood against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Maywood ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maywood ranks 19,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,812 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 124 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Maywood and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, Maywood rates moderate 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
Maywood's 100% 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.
Where Maywood's figures come from
Maywood's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maywood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.