Cambridge, IL
How exposed is Cambridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cambridge lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,365 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 Cambridge at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Cambridge's buildings actually sit
Only 8.3% of Cambridge's 1,365 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Cambridge ranks
Within Illinois, Cambridge ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cambridge ranks 29,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,762 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,027 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cambridge
At the 5th national percentile, Cambridge rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Cambridge
With 91.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cambridge 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
Cambridge's 5th-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 Cambridge, see the exposure-zones guide.