Canada Creek Ranch, MI
Canada Creek Ranch wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Canada Creek Ranch lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 627 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canada Creek Ranch at the 46th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Canada Creek Ranch's 627 counted buildings, 84.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Canada Creek Ranch ranks
Compare Canada Creek Ranch's two percentiles: 95th within Michigan, only 50th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canada Creek Ranch ranks 15,880 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,481 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 39 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Canada Creek Ranch and the insurance market
Canada Creek Ranch's elevated rating (50th 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 Canada Creek Ranch
Canada Creek Ranch's 84.1% 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 Canada Creek Ranch's 15,880-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Canada Creek Ranch, see the exposure-zones guide.