Fox Lake Hills, IL
How exposed is Fox Lake Hills to wildfire?
Fox Lake Hills's 1,560 buildings earn a 34th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fox Lake Hills at the 36th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fox Lake Hills's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.7% of Fox Lake Hills's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Fox Lake Hills against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Fox Lake Hills ranks higher (86th 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, Fox Lake Hills ranks 20,791 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,921 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 211 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fox Lake Hills
Fox Lake Hills'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.
Hardening a home in Fox Lake Hills
With 81.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fox Lake Hills gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Fox Lake Hills's figures come from
Fox Lake Hills's 34th-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 Fox Lake Hills's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.