New Berlin, IL
New Berlin wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Berlin at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 753 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 New Berlin at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.5% of New Berlin's 753 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where New Berlin ranks
New Berlin scores 1st nationally and 9th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Berlin ranks 31,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,090 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,320 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 1st national percentile, New Berlin 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 New Berlin
Even with 97.5% of New Berlin outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Berlin's 31,228-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Berlin, see the exposure-zones guide.