Lansing, IL
How exposed is Lansing to wildfire?
Lansing sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 13,300 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lansing's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
Lansing's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Lansing's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 13,300 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Lansing ranks
Lansing's 99th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 51st 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, Lansing ranks 15,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 22 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Lansing and the insurance market
Lansing's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
Hardening a home in Lansing
Lansing's 99.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,300 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lansing. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lansing, see the exposure-zones guide.