Markham, IL
How exposed is Markham to wildfire?
Markham's 6,178 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Markham at the 52nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Markham's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.5% of Markham's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,178 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Markham compares
Markham's 98th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 50th 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, Markham ranks 15,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,810 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 27 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Markham
Markham's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 97.5% of Markham outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Markham's 15,719-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Markham, see the exposure-zones guide.