East Cape Girardeau, IL
East Cape Girardeau, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Cape Girardeau's 244 buildings earn a 30th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Cape Girardeau's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
East Cape Girardeau's building exposure, zone by zone
East Cape Girardeau rates 84.8% Minimal exposure against just 11.5% Direct and 3.7% Indirect — of 244 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How East Cape Girardeau compares
East Cape Girardeau's 79th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 30th 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, East Cape Girardeau ranks 22,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,327 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 297 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Cape Girardeau
At the 30th national percentile, East Cape Girardeau 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 East Cape Girardeau
With 84.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Cape Girardeau 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
East Cape Girardeau's 30th-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 East Cape Girardeau, see the exposure-zones guide.