Kentwood, MI
Kentwood wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kentwood at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 16,073 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 Kentwood at the 12th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
92% of Kentwood's 16,073 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 16,073 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kentwood compares
Within Michigan, Kentwood ranks higher (34th percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kentwood ranks 28,341 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 907 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 489 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Kentwood and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Kentwood rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 92% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kentwood 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
Kentwood's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kentwood, see the exposure-zones guide.