Vicksburg, MI
How exposed is Vicksburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vicksburg at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,624 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 Vicksburg at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Vicksburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 79.3% of Vicksburg's 1,624 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.6% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Vicksburg compares
Compare Vicksburg's two percentiles: 44th within Michigan, only 13th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vicksburg ranks 27,514 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,681 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 418 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Vicksburg and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Vicksburg 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
Because 79.3% of Vicksburg'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 Vicksburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vicksburg's 27,514-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vicksburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.