Skanee, MI
Skanee, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Skanee's 180 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Skanee at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
180 buildings are counted in Skanee, and 98.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.1% rated Minimal.
Where Skanee ranks
Within Michigan, Skanee ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Skanee ranks 23,260 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,628 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 171 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Skanee
At the 26th national percentile, Skanee rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.9% of Skanee in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 180 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Skanee. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Skanee, see the exposure-zones guide.