Lawrence, MI
How exposed is Lawrence to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lawrence at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 490 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lawrence at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
490 buildings are counted in Lawrence, and 50% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Lawrence compares
Compare Lawrence's two percentiles: 42nd within Michigan, only 12th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lawrence ranks 27,644 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 430 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lawrence
Lawrence's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Lawrence
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lawrence (50%), 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
Lawrence's 12th-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 Lawrence, see the exposure-zones guide.