Marietta, TX
How exposed is Marietta to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Marietta at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 132 actual buildings. (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 83rd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
132 buildings are counted in Marietta, and 58.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Marietta against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Marietta sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 81st 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 6,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,644 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 665 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Marietta and the insurance market
Marietta's 81st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Marietta's 58.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Marietta's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Marietta, see the exposure-zones guide.