Inkster, MI
How exposed is Inkster to wildfire?
USFS scores Inkster at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 11,391 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Inkster at the 11th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Inkster's buildings actually sit
Inkster rates 98.1% Minimal exposure against just 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 11,391 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 11,391 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Inkster compares
Compare Inkster's two percentiles: 30th within Michigan, only 9th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Inkster ranks 28,593 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,386 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 522 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Inkster and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Inkster rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 98.1% of Inkster 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Inkster's 28,593-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Inkster, see the exposure-zones guide.