Warren, MI
Warren, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Warren lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 67,146 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Warren's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.5% of Warren's 67,146 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 67,146 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Warren compares
Warren's risk sits at a similar level relative to Michigan (8th 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, Warren ranks 30,297 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 118 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 685 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Warren and the insurance market
Warren's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Warren
Warren's 99.5% 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
Warren'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 Warren, see the exposure-zones guide.