Marriott-Slaterville, UT
How exposed is Marriott-Slaterville to wildfire?
USFS scores Marriott-Slaterville at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,436 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marriott-Slaterville at the 54th national percentile — 2 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
Of Marriott-Slaterville's 1,436 counted buildings, 52.2% carry Direct exposure and only 47.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Marriott-Slaterville compares
Marriott-Slaterville's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 11th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marriott-Slaterville ranks 14,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 290 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Marriott-Slaterville and the insurance market
Marriott-Slaterville's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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 Marriott-Slaterville
With 52.2% of Marriott-Slaterville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marriott-Slaterville's 14,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Marriott-Slaterville, see the exposure-zones guide.