Stockbridge, MI
Stockbridge wildfire risk explained
Stockbridge sits at the 18th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 641 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stockbridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Stockbridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 23.4% of Stockbridge's 641 buildings carry Direct exposure and 1.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Stockbridge ranks
Compare Stockbridge's two percentiles: 59th within Michigan, only 18th nationally — a gap of 42 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stockbridge ranks 25,971 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,309 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 304 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 18th national percentile, Stockbridge rates low 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 75.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Stockbridge gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Stockbridge's 25,971-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Stockbridge, see the exposure-zones guide.