Standish, MI
How exposed is Standish to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Standish at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 795 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Standish at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Standish (90.1% of 795 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Standish compares
Within Michigan, Standish ranks higher (74th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Standish ranks 23,919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,687 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 197 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Standish
At the 24th national percentile, Standish 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
Because 90.1% of Standish'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Standish's 23,919-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Standish, see the exposure-zones guide.