Brownlee Park, MI
How exposed is Brownlee Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brownlee Park lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,261 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brownlee Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Brownlee Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 41.5% of Brownlee Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.4% Direct and 40.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Brownlee Park compares
Within Michigan, Brownlee Park ranks higher (41st percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownlee Park ranks 27,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 442 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
Brownlee Park's low rating (12th 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 Brownlee Park
With 41.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brownlee Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Brownlee Park's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownlee Park, see the exposure-zones guide.