Farmington, MI
Farmington wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Farmington at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,862 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Farmington at the 9th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.1% of Farmington's 3,862 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Farmington compares
There's little gap between Farmington's 7th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmington ranks 29,284 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,372 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 590 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
Farmington's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Farmington
Even with 93.9% of Farmington 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.
More on how this number was built
Farmington's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Farmington, see the exposure-zones guide.