Arlington Heights, IL
Arlington Heights, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arlington Heights at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 23,913 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arlington Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Where Arlington Heights's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 92.5% of Arlington Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.6% Direct and 6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 23,913 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Arlington Heights compares
Arlington Heights's 67th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 23rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arlington Heights ranks 24,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 536 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 474 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
Arlington Heights's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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 Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights's 92.5% 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
Arlington Heights's 23rd-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 Arlington Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.