Clawson, MI
Clawson wildfire risk explained
Clawson's 6,387 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clawson at the 6th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Clawson's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.2% of Clawson's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,387 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Clawson ranks
There's little gap between Clawson's 5th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clawson ranks 29,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,711 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 661 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clawson
Clawson's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 98.2% of Clawson outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Clawson's 5th-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 Clawson, see the exposure-zones guide.