Cedar Springs, MI
Cedar Springs, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cedar Springs sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,469 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cedar Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Cedar Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 83.9% of Cedar Springs's 1,469 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 10.4% Direct and 5.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Cedar Springs compares
Compare Cedar Springs's two percentiles: 69th within Michigan, only 21st nationally — a gap of 48 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Springs ranks 24,808 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,314 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 230 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Cedar Springs and the insurance market
At the 21st national percentile, Cedar Springs rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Cedar Springs
Cedar Springs's 83.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cedar Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedar Springs's 24,808-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cedar Springs's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.