Lake Barrington, IL
How exposed is Lake Barrington to wildfire?
USFS scores Lake Barrington at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,691 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 Lake Barrington at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Lake Barrington's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Lake Barrington's 1,691 counted buildings, 51.3% carry Direct exposure and only 48.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Lake Barrington compares
Within Illinois, Lake Barrington ranks higher (82nd percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Barrington ranks 21,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 261 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Lake Barrington and the insurance market
Lake Barrington's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Barrington (51.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lake Barrington's 32nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Barrington, see the exposure-zones guide.