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How exposed is Cisco to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cisco at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 218 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cisco's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Cisco rates 94.5% Minimal exposure against just 5.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 218 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Cisco ranks
Cisco's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cisco ranks 31,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,189 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,306 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cisco
At the 1st national percentile, Cisco 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 Cisco
With 94.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cisco gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cisco's figures come from
Cisco's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cisco's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.