Perry, MI
Perry wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Perry at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,042 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Perry at the 16th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.6% of Perry's 1,042 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 85.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Perry against the rest of the country
Compare Perry's two percentiles: 52nd within Michigan, only 15th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perry ranks 26,793 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,643 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 359 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perry
At the 15th national percentile, Perry rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Perry's 85.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Perry's 15th-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 Perry, see the exposure-zones guide.