Round Lake Heights, IL
Round Lake Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Round Lake Heights at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 983 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Round Lake Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
Round Lake Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.1% of Round Lake Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Round Lake Heights compares
Within Illinois, Round Lake Heights ranks higher (82nd percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Round Lake Heights ranks 21,422 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,052 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 255 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Round Lake Heights and the insurance market
Round Lake Heights's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 93.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Round Lake Heights 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 Round Lake Heights's 21,422-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 Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.