Franklin, MI
How exposed is Franklin to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Franklin lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,347 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin at the 10th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Franklin's building exposure, zone by zone
1,347 buildings are counted in Franklin, and 63.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 36.8% rated Minimal.
Where Franklin ranks
Compare Franklin's two percentiles: 24th within Michigan, only 8th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin ranks 28,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,847 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 565 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin
At the 8th national percentile, Franklin 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
Franklin's 63.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Franklin's 28,994-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Franklin, see the exposure-zones guide.