Bingham Farms, MI
Bingham Farms wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bingham Farms lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 396 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 Bingham Farms at the 9th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Bingham Farms's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bingham Farms: 63.6% of its 396 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 36.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Bingham Farms against the rest of the country
Bingham Farms's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bingham Farms ranks 29,121 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 579 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bingham Farms
Bingham Farms'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 Bingham Farms
Bingham Farms's 63.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bingham Farms's 29,121-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bingham Farms, see the exposure-zones guide.