Rockland, MI
Rockland, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rockland lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 215 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rockland at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Rockland's buildings (60%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Rockland against the rest of the country
Within Michigan, Rockland ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockland ranks 20,137 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 93 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rockland
Rockland's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rockland's 60% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rockland's 20,137-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rockland, see the exposure-zones guide.