Franklin Park, IL
Franklin Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Franklin 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 8,842 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin Park at the 27th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Franklin Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Franklin Park rates 99.9% Minimal exposure against just 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 8,842 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,842 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Franklin Park ranks
Within Illinois, Franklin Park ranks higher (71st percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin Park ranks 23,723 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,885 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 421 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin Park
At the 25th national percentile, Franklin 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
With 99.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Franklin Park 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Franklin Park's 23,723-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Franklin Park, see the exposure-zones guide.