Port Hope, MI
Port Hope, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Port Hope at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 313 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Port Hope's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 29.1% of Port Hope's 313 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 70.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Port Hope compares
Port Hope's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Hope ranks 29,567 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,282 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 624 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
Port Hope's low wildfire rating (6th 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.
Hardening a home in Port Hope
Port Hope's 70.9% 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 Port Hope's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Hope's 29,567-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Hope's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.