Tinley Park, IL
How exposed is Tinley Park to wildfire?
Tinley Park's 17,934 buildings earn a 54th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tinley Park at the 55th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Tinley Park's buildings (99.6% of 17,934) 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. At 17,934 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tinley Park against the rest of the country
Compare Tinley Park's two percentiles: 100th within Illinois, only 54th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tinley Park ranks 14,461 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 803 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 5 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Tinley Park and the insurance market
Tinley Park's elevated rating (54th 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
Even with 99.6% of Tinley Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tinley Park's 14,461-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tinley Park, see the exposure-zones guide.