Grant Park, IL
Grant Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Grant Park's 716 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grant Park at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Grant Park's buildings (97.5% of 716) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Grant Park against the rest of the country
Compare Grant Park's two percentiles: 42nd within Illinois, only 10th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grant Park ranks 28,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,504 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 833 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Grant Park's low rating (10th 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 Grant Park
Grant Park's 97.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 716 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grant Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grant Park, see the exposure-zones guide.