Fox River Grove, IL
How exposed is Fox River Grove to wildfire?
USFS scores Fox River Grove at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,883 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fox River Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Fox River Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.9% of Fox River Grove's 1,883 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Fox River Grove ranks
Compare Fox River Grove's two percentiles: 79th within Illinois, only 29th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fox River Grove ranks 22,272 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,809 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 312 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fox River Grove
Fox River Grove's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fox River Grove 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
Fox River Grove's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fox River Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.