East Dundee, IL
East Dundee wildfire risk explained
East Dundee's 1,515 buildings earn a 30th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Dundee at the 31st percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where East Dundee's buildings actually sit
East Dundee rates 67.2% Minimal exposure against just 7.9% Direct and 24.9% Indirect — of 1,515 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How East Dundee compares
Within Illinois, East Dundee ranks higher (80th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Dundee ranks 22,115 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,099 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 298 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
East Dundee and the insurance market
East Dundee's moderate wildfire rating (30th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 67.2% of East Dundee 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 East Dundee's 22,115-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Dundee, see the exposure-zones guide.