Grant, MI
Grant, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Grant sits at the 23rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 427 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grant at the 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Grant's buildings actually sit
427 buildings are counted in Grant, and 82% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Grant ranks
Within Michigan, Grant ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grant ranks 24,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,713 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 208 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Grant and the insurance market
Grant's moderate wildfire rating (23rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Grant's 82% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Grant's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grant, see the exposure-zones guide.