Walkerville, MI
Walkerville, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Walkerville sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 197 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Walkerville at the 30th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Walkerville's buildings actually sit
60.9% of Walkerville's 197 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Walkerville ranks
Within Michigan, Walkerville ranks higher (84th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walkerville ranks 21,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,961 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 124 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Walkerville and the insurance market
Walkerville's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.9% of Walkerville'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 Walkerville's figures come from
Walkerville's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Walkerville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.