Marcus Hook, PA
Marcus Hook, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Marcus Hook at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 979 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marcus Hook at the 37th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Marcus Hook's buildings actually sit
Only 0.3% of Marcus Hook's 979 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Marcus Hook ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Marcus Hook ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marcus Hook ranks 19,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,083 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 844 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Marcus Hook and the insurance market
Marcus Hook's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.7% of Marcus Hook outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 979 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Marcus Hook. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marcus Hook, see the exposure-zones guide.