Marquette, MI
Marquette wildfire risk explained
Marquette's 7,261 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marquette at the 36th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
7,261 buildings are counted in Marquette, and 46.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16% in Direct exposure or the 37.3% rated Minimal. At 7,261 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Marquette compares
Compare Marquette's two percentiles: 88th within Michigan, only 37th nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marquette ranks 19,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 88 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Marquette and the insurance market
Marquette's moderate rating (37th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Marquette (46.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Marquette's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marquette's 19,911-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marquette's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.