Round Lake Beach, IL
Round Lake Beach wildfire risk explained
Round Lake Beach's 8,958 buildings earn a 36th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Round Lake Beach at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Round Lake Beach's building exposure, zone by zone
97.5% of Round Lake Beach's 8,958 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 8,958 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Round Lake Beach ranks
Round Lake Beach's 88th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 36th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Round Lake Beach ranks 20,099 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 170 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Round Lake Beach and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Round Lake Beach rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Round Lake Beach
Round Lake Beach's 97.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Round Lake Beach's 20,099-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Round Lake Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.