Parkdale, MI
Parkdale wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parkdale at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 479 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parkdale at the 29th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
63.7% of Parkdale's 479 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Parkdale compares
Parkdale's 80th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 29th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkdale ranks 22,502 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,724 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 148 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parkdale
Parkdale's moderate wildfire rating (29th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 63.7% of Parkdale's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Parkdale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 479 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parkdale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parkdale's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.