Maribel, WI
How exposed is Maribel to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Maribel at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 249 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maribel at the 11th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Maribel's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 22.5% of Maribel's 249 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Maribel against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Maribel's 10th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maribel ranks 28,384 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 759 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Maribel and the insurance market
Maribel's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 77.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Maribel 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
Maribel's 10th-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 Maribel, see the exposure-zones guide.