Okemos, MI
How exposed is Okemos to wildfire?
Okemos's 7,925 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Okemos's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Okemos rates 65% Minimal exposure against just 34.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,925 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,925 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Okemos ranks
Compare Okemos's two percentiles: 55th within Michigan, only 16th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Okemos ranks 26,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 333 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 16th national percentile, Okemos 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
Okemos's 65% 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.
Where Okemos's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Okemos's 26,507-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Okemos's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.