Marquette, WI
Marquette, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Marquette sits at the 44th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 211 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marquette at the 46th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Marquette's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 51.2% of Marquette's 211 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.4% Direct and 1.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Marquette against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Marquette ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (44th) — 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 ranks 17,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,464 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 44 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marquette
Marquette's elevated wildfire rating (44th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Marquette
Because 51.2% of Marquette's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marquette's 17,666-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Marquette, see the exposure-zones guide.