Maple Park, IL
Maple Park wildfire risk explained
Maple Park's 623 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maple Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Where Maple Park's buildings actually sit
Most of Maple Park's buildings (95.8% of 623) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Maple Park compares
Maple Park scores 2nd nationally and 16th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maple Park ranks 30,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,208 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Maple Park
At the 2nd national percentile, Maple Park rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 95.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Maple Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Maple Park's 30,784-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maple Park, see the exposure-zones guide.