Cissna Park, IL
Cissna Park, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cissna Park sits at the 1st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 606 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cissna Park at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cissna Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.2% of Cissna Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Cissna Park compares
There's little gap between Cissna Park's 1st national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cissna Park ranks 31,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,746 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,347 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Cissna Park and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Cissna Park rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cissna Park's 96.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Cissna Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cissna Park's 31,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cissna Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.