New Lenox, IL
New Lenox, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Lenox at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 9,325 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Lenox at the 27th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
New Lenox's building exposure, zone by zone
New Lenox rates 96.1% Minimal exposure against just 4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 9,325 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,325 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where New Lenox ranks
Within Illinois, New Lenox ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Lenox ranks 23,471 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 406 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Lenox
At the 26th national percentile, New Lenox rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 96.1% of New Lenox 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
New Lenox's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Lenox, see the exposure-zones guide.