Bolingbrook, IL
Bolingbrook wildfire risk explained
Bolingbrook sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 21,135 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bolingbrook at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98% of Bolingbrook's 21,135 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 21,135 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bolingbrook compares
Within Illinois, Bolingbrook ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bolingbrook ranks 20,822 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 657 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 213 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bolingbrook and the insurance market
Bolingbrook's moderate rating (34th 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 98% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bolingbrook 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,135 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bolingbrook. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bolingbrook, see the exposure-zones guide.