Port Barrington, IL
Port Barrington, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Barrington lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 637 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Port Barrington's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Port Barrington's buildings (61.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Port Barrington ranks
Compare Port Barrington's two percentiles: 89th within Illinois, only 37th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Barrington ranks 19,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 159 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Barrington
Port Barrington's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 61.2% of Port Barrington's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Port Barrington's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Barrington, see the exposure-zones guide.