West Brooklyn, IL
West Brooklyn, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Brooklyn's 115 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Brooklyn at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of West Brooklyn's buildings (85.2% of 115) 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.
Where West Brooklyn ranks
Within Illinois, West Brooklyn ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Brooklyn ranks 29,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,032 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Brooklyn
West Brooklyn's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 85.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Brooklyn 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
West Brooklyn's 5th-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 West Brooklyn, see the exposure-zones guide.