Dorr, MI
Dorr wildfire risk explained
Dorr's 1,636 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dorr at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
68.3% of Dorr's 1,636 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.8% Direct and 10% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Dorr compares
Dorr's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dorr ranks 29,157 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,630 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 581 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dorr
Dorr's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 68.3% of Dorr's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dorr's 29,157-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dorr, see the exposure-zones guide.