Lockport, IL
Lockport wildfire risk explained
Lockport's 9,258 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lockport at the 38th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Lockport's building exposure, zone by zone
93.9% of Lockport's 9,258 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,258 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lockport compares
Within Illinois, Lockport ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — 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 ranks 19,971 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 161 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Lockport and the insurance market
Lockport's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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 Lockport
Lockport's 93.9% 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.
Where Lockport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lockport's 19,971-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lockport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.