Mount Prospect, IL
Mount Prospect, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mount Prospect's 16,880 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Prospect at the 20th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Mount Prospect's buildings (98.2% of 16,880) 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. At 16,880 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mount Prospect against the rest of the country
Compare Mount Prospect's two percentiles: 60th within Illinois, only 19th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Prospect ranks 25,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 858 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 577 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Mount Prospect and the insurance market
Mount Prospect's low wildfire rating (19th 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 Mount Prospect
With 98.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Prospect gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mount Prospect's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 16,880 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Prospect. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Prospect's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.