Homer Glen, IL
Homer Glen wildfire risk explained
Homer Glen's 9,495 buildings earn a 37th-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 Homer Glen at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above 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 Homer Glen's buildings (77% of 9,495) 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. At 9,495 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Homer Glen against the rest of the country
Compare Homer Glen's two percentiles: 89th within Illinois, only 37th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homer Glen ranks 19,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,716 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 160 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Homer Glen and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Homer Glen rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Homer Glen
Even with 77% of Homer Glen 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,495 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Homer Glen. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Homer Glen, see the exposure-zones guide.