Auburn Hills, MI
Auburn Hills wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Auburn Hills at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,874 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 Auburn Hills at the 10th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Auburn Hills's buildings actually sit
81% of Auburn Hills's 7,874 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 14.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,874 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Auburn Hills against the rest of the country
Within Michigan, Auburn Hills ranks higher (26th percentile) than it does nationally (8th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn Hills ranks 28,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,154 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 553 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills's 81% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Auburn Hills's 28,905-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Auburn Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.