Taylor Ridge, IL
Taylor Ridge wildfire risk explained
Taylor Ridge sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 140 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taylor Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
Taylor Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 67.9% of Taylor Ridge's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.4% Direct and 0.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Taylor Ridge against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Taylor Ridge 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, Taylor Ridge ranks 19,123 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,280 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 117 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taylor Ridge
Taylor Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
Hardening a home in Taylor Ridge
Taylor Ridge's 67.9% 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
Taylor Ridge's 39th-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 Taylor Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.