Lenzburg, IL
How exposed is Lenzburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lenzburg at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 356 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lenzburg at the 10th national percentile — 0 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
81.2% of Lenzburg's 356 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Lenzburg compares
Lenzburg's 44th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 10th 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, Lenzburg ranks 28,263 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 810 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Lenzburg's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lenzburg
Lenzburg's 81.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lenzburg's 28,263-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lenzburg, see the exposure-zones guide.