Kent City, MI
Kent City, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kent City at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 536 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 Kent City at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Kent City rates 80.8% Minimal exposure against just 19.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 536 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Kent City ranks
Kent City's 60th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 18th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kent City ranks 25,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 300 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Kent City and the insurance market
Kent City's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kent City's 80.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Kent City's figures come from
Kent City's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kent City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.