Carpentersville, IL
Carpentersville wildfire risk explained
Carpentersville sits at the 26th 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 10,413 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Carpentersville at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Carpentersville's building exposure, zone by zone
Carpentersville rates 83.1% Minimal exposure against just 4.3% Direct and 12.6% Indirect — of 10,413 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,413 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Carpentersville compares
Within Illinois, Carpentersville ranks higher (74th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Carpentersville ranks 23,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,526 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 374 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Carpentersville
At the 26th national percentile, Carpentersville rates moderate 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 Carpentersville
Even with 83.1% of Carpentersville 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 Carpentersville's 23,186-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Carpentersville, see the exposure-zones guide.