Crystal Downs Country Club, MI
Crystal Downs Country Club, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crystal Downs Country Club sits at the 12th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 154 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crystal Downs Country Club's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Crystal Downs Country Club: 89.6% of its 154 buildings, versus 3.9% Indirect and 6.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Crystal Downs Country Club against the rest of the country
Compare Crystal Downs Country Club's two percentiles: 43rd within Michigan, only 12th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crystal Downs Country Club ranks 27,609 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,702 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 428 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Crystal Downs Country Club and the insurance market
Crystal Downs Country Club'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 Crystal Downs Country Club
Crystal Downs Country Club's 89.6% 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.
Where Crystal Downs Country Club's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crystal Downs Country Club's 27,609-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crystal Downs Country Club's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.