Brooklyn, MI
How exposed is Brooklyn to wildfire?
Brooklyn's 676 buildings earn a 18th-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 Brooklyn at the 19th national percentile — 1 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
75.2% of Brooklyn's 676 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Brooklyn compares
Brooklyn's 60th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 18th 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, Brooklyn ranks 25,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 297 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brooklyn's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brooklyn
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Brooklyn (75.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Brooklyn's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brooklyn, see the exposure-zones guide.