Westland, MI
Westland, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Westland lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 37,338 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Westland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Westland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.4% of Westland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 37,338 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Westland ranks
Westland's 31st-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 9th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westland ranks 28,560 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 519 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
Westland's low rating (9th 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 Westland
Westland's 97.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westland's 28,560-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westland, see the exposure-zones guide.