Manistique, MI
How exposed is Manistique to wildfire?
USFS scores Manistique at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,033 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Manistique at the 47th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Manistique's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 91.6% of Manistique's 2,033 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 6.5% Direct and 1.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Manistique ranks
Within Michigan, Manistique ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (47th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Manistique ranks 16,860 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 46 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manistique
Manistique's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 91.6% of Manistique's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Manistique's 16,860-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Manistique, see the exposure-zones guide.