Lyons, MI
How exposed is Lyons to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lyons lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 480 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lyons at the 17th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lyons's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lyons (71.9% of 480 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 28.1% sit in the Direct zone.
How Lyons compares
Within Michigan, Lyons ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyons ranks 26,405 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,703 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 330 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lyons
At the 16th national percentile, Lyons rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Lyons's 71.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lyons's 26,405-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lyons, see the exposure-zones guide.