Beach Park, IL
Beach Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Beach Park lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 6,185 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beach Park at the 43rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Beach Park's buildings actually sit
Of Beach Park's 6,185 counted buildings, 35.8% carry Direct exposure and only 29.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 6,185 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Beach Park ranks
Beach Park's 95th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 43rd 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, Beach Park ranks 17,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 75 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Beach Park and the insurance market
At the 43rd national percentile, Beach Park rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Beach Park (35.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,185 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beach Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beach Park, see the exposure-zones guide.