Kingston, MI
Kingston, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kingston at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 243 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kingston at the 14th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kingston's building exposure, zone by zone
65.8% of Kingston's 243 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 34.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Kingston compares
Within Michigan, Kingston ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingston ranks 27,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,364 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 408 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Kingston and the insurance market
Kingston's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kingston (65.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Kingston's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingston, see the exposure-zones guide.