North Riverside, IL
How exposed is North Riverside to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Riverside at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,839 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 North Riverside at the 39th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where North Riverside's buildings actually sit
Most of North Riverside's buildings (99.7% of 3,839) 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.
How North Riverside compares
Within Illinois, North Riverside ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Riverside ranks 20,098 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,386 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 169 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Riverside
North Riverside's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
North Riverside's 99.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,839 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Riverside. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Riverside, see the exposure-zones guide.