Muskegon Heights, MI
How exposed is Muskegon Heights to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Muskegon Heights lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,736 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 Muskegon Heights at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Muskegon Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Muskegon Heights rates 92.5% Minimal exposure against just 7.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,736 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Muskegon Heights compares
Compare Muskegon Heights's two percentiles: 44th within Michigan, only 13th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Muskegon Heights ranks 27,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 421 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Muskegon Heights and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Muskegon Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Muskegon Heights
With 92.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Muskegon Heights 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
Muskegon Heights's 13th-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 Muskegon Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.