Grandville, MI
Grandville, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Grandville at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,286 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grandville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Grandville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.3% of Grandville's 6,286 buildings carry Direct exposure and 26.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 71% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,286 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Grandville ranks
Within Michigan, Grandville ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grandville ranks 26,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,760 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 339 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Grandville and the insurance market
Grandville's low rating (16th 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 71% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Grandville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,286 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grandville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grandville, see the exposure-zones guide.