Pigeon, MI
Pigeon wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pigeon at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 702 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pigeon at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pigeon's buildings actually sit
Pigeon rates 95% Minimal exposure against just 5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 702 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Pigeon ranks
There's little gap between Pigeon's 1st national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pigeon ranks 31,309 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,635 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 742 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Pigeon and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Pigeon rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Pigeon
Pigeon's 95% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 702 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pigeon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pigeon, see the exposure-zones guide.