Cecil, WI
Cecil wildfire risk explained
Cecil's 430 buildings earn a 20th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cecil at the 20th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cecil's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cecil's buildings (56.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Cecil against the rest of the country
Cecil scores 20th nationally and 32nd within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cecil ranks 25,137 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,665 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 553 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cecil
Cecil's moderate 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
Because 56.5% of Cecil's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cecil's 25,137-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cecil, see the exposure-zones guide.