Kingsley, MI
Kingsley, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kingsley at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 742 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingsley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
Kingsley's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Kingsley's buildings (72.1%) 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.
How Kingsley compares
Compare Kingsley's two percentiles: 88th within Michigan, only 36th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsley ranks 20,136 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 92 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kingsley
Kingsley's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
Hardening a home in Kingsley
Kingsley's 72.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 742 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kingsley. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingsley, see the exposure-zones guide.