Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Village of Grosse Pointe Shores lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,191 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Village of Grosse Pointe Shores at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Village of Grosse Pointe Shores's buildings actually sit
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores rates 98.5% Minimal exposure against just 1.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,191 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores against the rest of the country
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (4th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Village of Grosse Pointe Shores ranks 30,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,702 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 702 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Village of Grosse Pointe Shores
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores's 98.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.