Mendon, MI
Mendon, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mendon sits at the 3rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 551 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mendon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 76.2% of Mendon's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mendon compares
There's little gap between Mendon's 3rd national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mendon ranks 30,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 714 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Mendon and the insurance market
Mendon's low rating (3rd 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
With 76.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mendon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mendon's 30,703-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mendon, see the exposure-zones guide.