St. Ignace, MI
How exposed is St. Ignace to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Ignace at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,602 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks St. Ignace at the 38th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,602 buildings are counted in St. Ignace, and 57.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.8% in Direct exposure or the 30.3% rated Minimal.
Where St. Ignace ranks
St. Ignace's 91st-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 40th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Ignace ranks 19,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,765 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 74 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
St. Ignace and the insurance market
St. Ignace's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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 St. Ignace
Because 57.9% of St. Ignace's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where St. Ignace's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,602 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for St. Ignace. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Ignace's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.