Rosebush, MI
How exposed is Rosebush to wildfire?
USFS scores Rosebush at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 262 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rosebush at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rosebush's buildings actually sit
Rosebush rates 76.3% Minimal exposure against just 23.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 262 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Rosebush ranks
There's little gap between Rosebush's 3rd national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Michigan, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosebush ranks 30,642 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,771 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 711 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rosebush
Rosebush's low wildfire rating (3rd 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 Rosebush
Rosebush's 76.3% 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 Rosebush's figures come from
Rosebush's 3rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosebush's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.