Park Ridge, IL
Park Ridge wildfire risk explained
Park Ridge's 16,388 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Park Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
Park Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Park Ridge rates 99.4% Minimal exposure against just 0.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 16,388 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 16,388 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Park Ridge compares
Within Illinois, Park Ridge ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Park Ridge ranks 23,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 885 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 411 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Park Ridge
Park Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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 Park Ridge
With 99.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Park Ridge 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
Park Ridge's 25th-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 Park Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.