Marietta, GA
Marietta, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Marietta at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 17,608 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marietta at the 61st percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Marietta's building exposure, zone by zone
Marietta rates 34.4% Minimal exposure against just 33.6% Direct and 31.9% Indirect — of 17,608 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 17,608 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Marietta compares
Inside Georgia, Marietta sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 57th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marietta ranks 13,456 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 813 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 571 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Marietta and the insurance market
At the 57th national percentile, Marietta rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 34.4% of Marietta 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.
Where Marietta's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17,608 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Marietta. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marietta's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.