Orland Hills, IL
Orland Hills wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Orland Hills at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,594 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Orland Hills at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Orland Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
99.9% of Orland Hills's 2,594 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Orland Hills ranks
Orland Hills's 97th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 47th 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, Orland Hills ranks 16,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 39 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Orland Hills and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Orland Hills rates elevated 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
Orland Hills's 99.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orland Hills's 16,727-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orland Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.