Eastpointe, MI
How exposed is Eastpointe to wildfire?
Eastpointe's 18,475 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eastpointe at the 4th percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Eastpointe rates 99.9% Minimal exposure against just 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 18,475 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 18,475 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Eastpointe compares
There's little gap between Eastpointe's 3rd national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastpointe ranks 30,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 774 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 713 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eastpointe
Eastpointe's low rating (3rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Eastpointe gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Eastpointe's figures come from
Eastpointe's 3rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eastpointe's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.