Huntley, IL
How exposed is Huntley to wildfire?
USFS scores Huntley at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 10,233 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Huntley at the 22nd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.6% of Huntley's 10,233 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,233 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Huntley ranks
Compare Huntley's two percentiles: 65th within Illinois, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huntley ranks 24,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 508 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Huntley and the insurance market
Huntley's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Huntley's 95.4% 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.
Where Huntley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huntley's 24,699-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Huntley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.