Fruitport, MI
Fruitport, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Fruitport at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 594 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fruitport at the 26th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
54.4% of Fruitport's 594 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.1% Direct and 3.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Fruitport compares
Within Michigan, Fruitport ranks higher (76th percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fruitport ranks 23,604 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 183 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Fruitport and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Fruitport rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.4% of Fruitport'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fruitport's 23,604-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fruitport, see the exposure-zones guide.