Richton Park, IL
How exposed is Richton Park to wildfire?
Richton Park's 3,731 buildings earn a 37th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Richton Park at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Richton Park's building exposure, zone by zone
99.4% of Richton Park's 3,731 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Richton Park against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Richton Park ranks higher (90th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Richton Park ranks 19,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 154 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Richton Park's moderate rating (37th 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 99.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Richton Park 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 Richton Park's 19,782-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Richton Park, see the exposure-zones guide.