Lansing, MI
Lansing, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lansing lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 50,042 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lansing's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Lansing's buildings actually sit
83.2% of Lansing's 50,042 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 50,042 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lansing against the rest of the country
Compare Lansing's two percentiles: 48th within Michigan, only 14th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lansing ranks 27,109 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 174 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 383 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Lansing and the insurance market
Lansing's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Lansing's 83.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lansing's 27,109-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lansing, see the exposure-zones guide.