Highland Park, MI
Highland Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Highland Park at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 4,410 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Highland Park at the 9th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Highland Park's buildings actually sit
Only 0% of Highland Park's 4,410 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Highland Park compares
Highland Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (21st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highland Park ranks 29,256 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,873 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 589 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Highland Park and the insurance market
Highland Park's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 100% of Highland Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,410 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Highland Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Highland Park, see the exposure-zones guide.