North Aurora, IL
North Aurora, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Aurora at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,805 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Aurora at the 22nd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.2% of North Aurora's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,805 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
North Aurora against the rest of the country
Compare North Aurora's two percentiles: 65th within Illinois, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Aurora ranks 24,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,975 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 502 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
North Aurora and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, North Aurora rates moderate 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 94.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Aurora 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 North Aurora's 24,638-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.