Cambridge, WI
How exposed is Cambridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Cambridge at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 731 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 Cambridge at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Cambridge's buildings actually sit
Cambridge rates 78.5% Minimal exposure against just 21.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 731 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Cambridge ranks
Compare Cambridge's two percentiles: 73rd within Wisconsin, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cambridge ranks 21,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,327 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 221 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cambridge
Cambridge's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Cambridge
With 78.5% 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 32nd-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.