Bartlett, IL
Bartlett wildfire risk explained
Bartlett sits at the 43rd 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 12,407 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bartlett's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Bartlett's buildings (95.1% of 12,407) 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. At 12,407 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bartlett compares
Compare Bartlett's two percentiles: 95th within Illinois, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bartlett ranks 18,080 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,244 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 80 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bartlett
At the 43rd national percentile, Bartlett 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 Bartlett
Even with 95.1% of Bartlett outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bartlett's 18,080-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bartlett, see the exposure-zones guide.