Mayville, MI
Mayville, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mayville at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 538 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mayville at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Mayville's buildings actually sit
69.1% of Mayville's 538 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Mayville ranks
Mayville's 33rd-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 10th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayville ranks 28,461 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,751 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 501 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mayville
Mayville's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mayville's 69.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mayville'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 Mayville, see the exposure-zones guide.