Marietta, OH
How exposed is Marietta to wildfire?
USFS scores Marietta at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,930 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 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Marietta's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Marietta (77.8% of 6,930 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.3% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,930 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Marietta ranks
Within Ohio, Marietta ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — 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 20,302 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 280 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Marietta and the insurance market
Marietta's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
Hardening a home in Marietta
Marietta's 77.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Marietta's figures come from
Marietta's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marietta's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.