Lake Angelus, MI
Lake Angelus wildfire risk explained
Lake Angelus's 235 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lake Angelus at the 10th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
235 buildings are counted in Lake Angelus, and 84.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 15.3% rated Minimal.
How Lake Angelus compares
Compare Lake Angelus's two percentiles: 27th within Michigan, only 9th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Angelus ranks 28,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,628 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 547 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Lake Angelus and the insurance market
Lake Angelus's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lake Angelus
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Angelus (84.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 235 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lake Angelus. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Angelus, see the exposure-zones guide.