Brighton, MI
Brighton, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brighton's 2,664 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brighton at the 15th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brighton's building exposure, zone by zone
Brighton rates 69.9% Minimal exposure against just 7.9% Direct and 22.2% Indirect — of 2,664 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Brighton compares
Within Michigan, Brighton ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brighton ranks 27,294 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,994 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 398 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Brighton and the insurance market
Brighton's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brighton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brighton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,664 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brighton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brighton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.