Oak Forest, IL
Oak Forest, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Oak Forest sits at the 55th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,967 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Forest at the 57th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Where Oak Forest's buildings actually sit
Only 0.7% of Oak Forest's 9,967 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,967 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Oak Forest compares
Within Illinois, Oak Forest ranks higher (100th percentile) than it does nationally (55th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Forest ranks 14,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,623 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 4 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Oak Forest and the insurance market
At the 55th national percentile, Oak Forest rates elevated 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 Oak Forest
With 99.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Oak Forest 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,967 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oak Forest. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oak Forest, see the exposure-zones guide.