Lake Gogebic, MI
How exposed is Lake Gogebic to wildfire?
USFS scores Lake Gogebic at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Gogebic at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Lake Gogebic's buildings actually sit
Of Lake Gogebic's 161 counted buildings, 91.9% carry Direct exposure and only 8.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Lake Gogebic compares
There's little gap between Lake Gogebic's 7th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Gogebic ranks 29,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,387 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 584 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Gogebic
Lake Gogebic's low wildfire rating (7th 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 Lake Gogebic
With 91.9% of Lake Gogebic in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lake Gogebic's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Gogebic, see the exposure-zones guide.