Maple Rapids, MI
Maple Rapids, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Maple Rapids at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 381 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maple Rapids at the 15th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
381 buildings are counted in Maple Rapids, and 67.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Maple Rapids compares
Compare Maple Rapids's two percentiles: 52nd within Michigan, only 15th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maple Rapids ranks 26,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,618 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 357 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Maple Rapids's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Maple Rapids
Because 67.2% of Maple Rapids'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 381 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maple Rapids. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Maple Rapids, see the exposure-zones guide.