Round Lake Park, IL
How exposed is Round Lake Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Round Lake Park at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,646 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 Round Lake Park at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Round Lake Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Round Lake Park's buildings (98.2% of 3,646) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Round Lake Park compares
Round Lake Park's 73rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 26th 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 Park ranks 23,282 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 385 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
Round Lake Park's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Round Lake 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,646 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Round Lake Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Round Lake Park, see the exposure-zones guide.