Deer Park, IL
How exposed is Deer Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Deer Park at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,261 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Deer Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Deer Park: 41.2% of its 1,261 buildings, versus 39.7% Indirect and 19.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Deer Park against the rest of the country
Compare Deer Park's two percentiles: 72nd within Illinois, only 25th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deer Park ranks 23,597 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,289 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 412 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Deer Park and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Deer Park rates moderate 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
Deer Park's 41.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Deer Park's figures come from
Deer Park's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Deer Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.