Orland Park, IL
Orland Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Orland Park's 17,323 buildings earn a 45th-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 Orland Park at the 47th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Orland Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Orland Park's buildings (98.9% of 17,323) 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 17,323 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Orland Park ranks
Within Illinois, Orland Park ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (45th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orland Park ranks 17,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 59 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Orland Park and the insurance market
Orland Park's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orland Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Orland Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orland Park's 17,387-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Orland Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.