Allen Park, MI
Allen Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Allen Park at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 16,991 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Allen Park at the 8th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.8% of Allen Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 16,991 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Allen Park ranks
Allen Park scores 6th nationally and 16th within Michigan — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allen Park ranks 29,630 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 851 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 627 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Allen Park and the insurance market
Allen Park's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 99.8% of Allen Park 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
Allen Park's 6th-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 Allen Park, see the exposure-zones guide.