Aurora, IL
Aurora, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Aurora's 49,223 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aurora at the 23rd percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Aurora's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.1% of Aurora's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 49,223 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Aurora against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Aurora ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurora ranks 23,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 180 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 430 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aurora
At the 24th national percentile, Aurora rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Aurora's 98.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aurora's 23,819-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.