La Grange, IL
La Grange, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores La Grange at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,143 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 La Grange at the 38th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Where La Grange's buildings actually sit
Most of La Grange's buildings (99.8% of 7,143) 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 7,143 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How La Grange compares
La Grange's 86th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 35th 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, La Grange ranks 20,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,400 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 199 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
La Grange and the insurance market
La Grange's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, La Grange 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Grange's 20,569-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Grange, see the exposure-zones guide.