Streamwood, IL
Streamwood, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Streamwood at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 11,687 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Streamwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Streamwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.4% of Streamwood's 11,687 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 11,687 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Streamwood against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Streamwood ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Streamwood ranks 20,290 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,342 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 180 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
At the 36th national percentile, Streamwood rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Streamwood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Streamwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Streamwood's 20,290-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Streamwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.