Kingsford, MI
Kingsford, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kingsford's 3,144 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kingsford at the 26th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kingsford's buildings actually sit
Most of Kingsford's buildings (84.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Kingsford against the rest of the country
Compare Kingsford's two percentiles: 79th within Michigan, only 27th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsford ranks 23,003 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 161 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Kingsford and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Kingsford rates moderate 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
Because 84.2% of Kingsford's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kingsford's 23,003-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingsford, see the exposure-zones guide.