Rosewood Heights, IL
Rosewood Heights, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rosewood Heights at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,216 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rosewood Heights at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Rosewood Heights's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 77.9% of Rosewood Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Rosewood Heights ranks
Within Illinois, Rosewood Heights ranks higher (46th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosewood Heights ranks 27,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 782 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Rosewood Heights and the insurance market
Rosewood Heights's low rating (12th 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
Rosewood Heights's 77.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Rosewood Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rosewood Heights's 27,881-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosewood Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.