Cass City, MI
Cass City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cass City lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,279 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 Cass City at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Cass City's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cass City's buildings (51.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Cass City compares
Cass City's 37th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 11th 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, Cass City ranks 28,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,202 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 468 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cass City
Cass City's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Hardening a home in Cass City
Because 51.3% of Cass City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cass City's 11th-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 Cass City, see the exposure-zones guide.