La Grange Park, IL
How exposed is La Grange Park to wildfire?
USFS scores La Grange Park at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,909 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Grange Park at the 39th national percentile — 3 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
99.2% of La Grange Park's 5,909 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,909 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
La Grange Park against the rest of the country
Compare La Grange Park's two percentiles: 88th within Illinois, only 36th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Grange Park ranks 20,194 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,914 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 174 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Grange Park
At the 36th national percentile, La Grange Park rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, La Grange Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where La Grange Park's figures come from
La Grange Park's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Grange Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.