Amasa, MI
How exposed is Amasa to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Amasa lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 327 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Amasa at the 66th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Amasa's buildings actually sit
Of Amasa's 327 counted buildings, 77.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Amasa compares
Amasa's 98th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 64th 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, Amasa ranks 11,245 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 13 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Amasa and the insurance market
At the 64th percentile nationally, Amasa carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Amasa (77.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Amasa's 11,245-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Amasa, see the exposure-zones guide.