Villa Park, IL
Villa Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Villa Park at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 10,973 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Villa Park at the 19th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Where Villa Park's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.6% of Villa Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 10,973 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Villa Park ranks
Compare Villa Park's two percentiles: 55th within Illinois, only 16th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Villa Park ranks 26,401 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 652 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Villa Park
Villa Park's low rating (16th 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
Villa Park's 98.6% 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.
Where Villa Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,973 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Villa Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Villa Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.