East Jordan, MI
How exposed is East Jordan to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Jordan lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,415 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Jordan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
East Jordan's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 65.3% of East Jordan's 1,415 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.4% Direct and 1.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How East Jordan compares
Compare East Jordan's two percentiles: 82nd within Michigan, only 30th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Jordan ranks 22,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 139 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
East Jordan and the insurance market
East Jordan's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 65.3% of East Jordan'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
East Jordan's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Jordan, see the exposure-zones guide.