Marinette, WI
Marinette, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Marinette sits at the 33rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,300 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marinette at the 34th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Marinette's building exposure, zone by zone
61.7% of Marinette's 6,300 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 7.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,300 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Marinette against the rest of the country
Marinette's 75th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 33rd 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, Marinette ranks 21,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,756 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 201 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Marinette and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Marinette rates moderate 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
With 61.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Marinette 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
Marinette's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marinette, see the exposure-zones guide.