Irving, IL
Irving wildfire risk explained
Irving's 363 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Irving at the 19th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Where Irving's buildings actually sit
Most of Irving's buildings (74.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Irving ranks
Compare Irving's two percentiles: 59th within Illinois, only 18th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Irving ranks 25,708 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,998 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 596 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Irving
Irving's low wildfire rating (18th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.7% of Irving's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Irving's 25,708-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Irving, see the exposure-zones guide.