River Grove, IL
How exposed is River Grove to wildfire?
USFS scores River Grove at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,358 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts River Grove at the 41st percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where River Grove's buildings actually sit
River Grove rates 99.7% Minimal exposure against just 0.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,358 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How River Grove compares
Compare River Grove's two percentiles: 90th 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, River Grove ranks 19,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,925 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 152 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in River Grove
River Grove'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.
Hardening a home in River Grove
With 99.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, River Grove 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
River Grove'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 minimal exposure implies beyond River Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.