Marcellus, MI
Marcellus wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marcellus lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 720 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marcellus at the 7th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 43.6% of Marcellus's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 26.1% Direct and 30.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Marcellus ranks
Marcellus scores 7th nationally and 19th within Michigan — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marcellus ranks 29,381 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,450 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 602 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marcellus
Marcellus's low rating (7th 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 Marcellus
With 43.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Marcellus gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marcellus's 29,381-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marcellus, see the exposure-zones guide.