Marietta, IN
How exposed is Marietta to wildfire?
USFS scores Marietta at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 141 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marietta's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Marietta's building exposure, zone by zone
69.5% of Marietta's 141 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Marietta ranks
Marietta's 28th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 4th 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, Marietta ranks 30,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 697 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marietta
Marietta's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 69.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Marietta 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 Marietta's 30,316-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marietta, see the exposure-zones guide.