Ecorse, MI
Ecorse wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ecorse at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 5,124 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ecorse at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ecorse's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 99.8% of Ecorse's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,124 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Ecorse compares
There's little gap between Ecorse's 4th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ecorse ranks 30,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,368 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 699 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
At the 4th national percentile, Ecorse rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 99.8% of Ecorse 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 Ecorse's figures come from
Ecorse's 4th-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 Ecorse's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.