Attica, MI
Attica wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Attica at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 734 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 Attica at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Attica's 734 counted buildings, 89.7% carry Direct exposure and only 3.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Attica ranks
Compare Attica's two percentiles: 38th within Michigan, only 11th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Attica ranks 28,084 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,285 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 465 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 11th national percentile, Attica 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 Attica
Because Direct exposure dominates in Attica (89.7%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 734 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Attica. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Attica, see the exposure-zones guide.