Hanover Park, IL
Hanover Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hanover Park sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,567 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hanover Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
Where Hanover Park's buildings actually sit
Only 0.7% of Hanover Park's 8,567 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,567 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hanover Park against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Hanover Park ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hanover Park ranks 20,318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,940 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 181 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
Hanover Park's moderate rating (36th 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 Hanover Park
Even with 99.3% of Hanover Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hanover Park's 20,318-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hanover Park, see the exposure-zones guide.