Northville, MI
Northville, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Northville lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,544 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Northville at the 13th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Northville's buildings actually sit
Most of Northville's buildings (74.8% of 2,544) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Northville compares
Within Michigan, Northville ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northville ranks 28,018 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,217 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 460 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 11th national percentile, Northville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 74.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Northville 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
Northville's 11th-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 Northville, see the exposure-zones guide.