Long Grove, IL
How exposed is Long Grove to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Long Grove at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,173 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Long Grove at the 28th national percentile — 3 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
3,173 buildings are counted in Long Grove, and 62.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 37.3% rated Minimal.
Long Grove against the rest of the country
Compare Long Grove's two percentiles: 72nd within Illinois, only 25th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Grove ranks 23,534 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 410 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Long Grove and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Long Grove rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Long Grove
Long Grove's 62.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Long Grove's figures come from
Long Grove's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Long Grove's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.