Marquette, KS
How exposed is Marquette to wildfire?
Marquette's 468 buildings earn a 51st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marquette's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
Where Marquette's buildings actually sit
Only 12.2% of Marquette's 468 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 85.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Marquette against the rest of the country
Marquette ranks lower within Kansas (34th percentile statewide) than its 51st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marquette ranks 15,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,918 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 476 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Marquette's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Marquette's 85.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 468 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Marquette. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marquette, see the exposure-zones guide.