Wolf Lake, MI
Wolf Lake, MI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wolf Lake's 2,206 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wolf Lake at the 28th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wolf Lake's buildings actually sit
66% of Wolf Lake's 2,206 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 33.4% Direct and 0.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Wolf Lake compares
Wolf Lake's 78th-percentile standing inside Michigan outpaces its 27th 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, Wolf Lake ranks 23,073 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,921 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 165 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wolf Lake
Wolf Lake's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Hardening a home in Wolf Lake
Because 66% of Wolf Lake'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wolf Lake's 23,073-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wolf Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.