Hazel Park, MI
Hazel Park wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hazel Park lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 9,062 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hazel Park at the 4th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hazel Park's buildings actually sit
99.9% of Hazel Park's 9,062 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,062 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Hazel Park compares
There's little gap between Hazel Park's 3rd national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hazel Park ranks 30,488 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 704 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
Hazel Park's low rating (3rd 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 99.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hazel Park 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hazel Park's 30,488-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hazel Park, see the exposure-zones guide.