Lockport Heights, IL
Lockport Heights wildfire risk explained
Lockport Heights sits at the 41st 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 530 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lockport Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
Where Lockport Heights's buildings actually sit
97.2% of Lockport Heights's 530 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Lockport Heights ranks
Within Illinois, Lockport Heights ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lockport Heights ranks 18,556 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 98 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lockport Heights
Lockport Heights's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lockport Heights's 97.2% 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 Lockport Heights's 18,556-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lockport Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.