Mason, MI
Mason, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mason lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,567 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mason at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.3% of Mason's 3,567 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Mason compares
Within Michigan, Mason ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mason ranks 28,282 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,694 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 483 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
At the 10th national percentile, Mason 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
Even with 91.7% of Mason outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mason's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mason, see the exposure-zones guide.