Northview, MI
Northview, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Northview lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,325 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Northview at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Northview's buildings actually sit
Only 19.1% of Northview's 6,325 buildings carry Direct exposure and 28.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,325 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Northview compares
Within Michigan, Northview ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (18th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northview ranks 25,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 286 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Northview and the insurance market
Northview's low rating (18th 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 52.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Northview gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Northview's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Northview's 25,749-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Northview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.