Marquette Heights, IL
How exposed is Marquette Heights to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marquette Heights lands at the 23rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,467 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marquette Heights at the 24th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 49.5% of Marquette Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.8% Direct and 36.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Marquette Heights compares
Within Illinois, Marquette Heights ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marquette Heights ranks 24,259 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,325 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 476 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marquette Heights
At the 23rd national percentile, Marquette Heights rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 49.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Marquette Heights 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,467 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Marquette Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marquette Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.