Westlake Village, IL
Westlake Village, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Westlake Village lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 502 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westlake Village at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Where Westlake Village's buildings actually sit
63.9% of Westlake Village's 502 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 36.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Westlake Village against the rest of the country
Compare Westlake Village's two percentiles: 61st within Illinois, only 20th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westlake Village ranks 25,235 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 561 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Westlake Village and the insurance market
Westlake Village's low wildfire rating (20th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Westlake Village's 63.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
Westlake Village's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westlake Village, see the exposure-zones guide.