Mattawan, MI
How exposed is Mattawan to wildfire?
Mattawan's 1,324 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mattawan at the 14th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mattawan's building exposure, zone by zone
1,324 buildings are counted in Mattawan, and 69.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 30.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Mattawan ranks
Compare Mattawan's two percentiles: 49th within Michigan, only 14th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mattawan ranks 27,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,960 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 379 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mattawan
At the 14th national percentile, Mattawan rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 69.9% of Mattawan'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
Mattawan's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mattawan, see the exposure-zones guide.