Dimondale, MI
Dimondale wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dimondale lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 736 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 Dimondale at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Where Dimondale's buildings actually sit
Dimondale rates 55.3% Minimal exposure against just 34.4% Direct and 10.3% Indirect — of 736 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Dimondale against the rest of the country
Compare Dimondale's two percentiles: 46th within Michigan, only 13th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dimondale ranks 27,385 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,259 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 406 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Dimondale's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 55.3% of Dimondale 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.
Where Dimondale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dimondale's 27,385-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dimondale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.