Marietta, MN
Marietta, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Marietta's 184 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (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 53rd percentile nationally.
Marietta's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 56% of Marietta's 184 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Marietta against the rest of the country
Within Minnesota, Marietta ranks higher (88th percentile) than it does nationally (63rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marietta ranks 11,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,465 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 108 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Marietta's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Marietta
Because 56% of Marietta's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marietta's 11,666-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Marietta, see the exposure-zones guide.