Boon, MI
How exposed is Boon to wildfire?
USFS scores Boon at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 93 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
Where Boon's buildings actually sit
Of Boon's 93 counted buildings, 60.2% 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 Boon compares
Boon's 79th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 27th 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, Boon ranks 22,938 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,355 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 160 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boon
At the 27th national percentile, Boon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Boon's 60.2% 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 Boon's 22,938-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boon, see the exposure-zones guide.