Brethren, MI
Brethren, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brethren's 269 buildings earn a 38th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brethren at the 37th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 72.5% of Brethren's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 27.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 195 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Brethren against the rest of the country
Compare Brethren's two percentiles: 89th within Michigan, only 38th nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brethren ranks 19,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,537 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 81 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brethren
At the 38th national percentile, Brethren rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Brethren's 72.5% 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 Brethren's 19,507-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brethren, see the exposure-zones guide.