Elk Grove Village, IL
How exposed is Elk Grove Village to wildfire?
Elk Grove Village's 11,117 buildings earn a 23rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Elk Grove Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Elk Grove Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.7% of Elk Grove Village's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.7% Direct and 12.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 11,117 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Elk Grove Village ranks
Within Illinois, Elk Grove Village ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elk Grove Village ranks 24,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 477 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Elk Grove Village
Elk Grove Village's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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.
Hardening a home in Elk Grove Village
With 86.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Elk Grove Village 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 11,117 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Elk Grove Village. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Elk Grove Village, see the exposure-zones guide.