Cicero, IL
How exposed is Cicero to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cicero at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 24,292 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cicero at the 28th national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cicero's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Cicero's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 24,292 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Cicero ranks
Cicero's 68th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 23rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cicero ranks 24,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 527 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 464 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Cicero and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, Cicero rates moderate 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 Cicero
Even with 100% of Cicero outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cicero's 23rd-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 Cicero, see the exposure-zones guide.