Kirkland, IL
How exposed is Kirkland to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kirkland lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 829 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kirkland at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kirkland's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Kirkland's buildings (90.4% of 829) 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.
How Kirkland compares
Kirkland's 33rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 6th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kirkland ranks 29,523 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 974 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Kirkland and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Kirkland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 90.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kirkland gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Kirkland's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kirkland, see the exposure-zones guide.