Crystal, MI
Crystal, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crystal at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,186 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crystal at the 13th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 76.9% of Crystal's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Crystal against the rest of the country
Within Michigan, Crystal ranks higher (49th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crystal ranks 27,009 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,731 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 376 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crystal
At the 14th national percentile, Crystal rates low 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 Crystal
Crystal's 76.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crystal's 27,009-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crystal, see the exposure-zones guide.