Bronson, MI
Bronson, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bronson at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,109 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bronson at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bronson rates 95.7% Minimal exposure against just 4.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,109 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Bronson ranks
Bronson scores 4th nationally and 10th within Michigan — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bronson ranks 30,164 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 673 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bronson
Bronson's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bronson's 95.7% 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.
Where Bronson's figures come from
Bronson's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bronson's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.