Marshfield, VT
Marshfield wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marshfield lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 143 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marshfield at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
143 buildings are counted in Marshfield, and 71.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Marshfield compares
Marshfield's 33rd-percentile standing inside Vermont outpaces its 14th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marshfield ranks 27,084 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 121 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Marshfield and the insurance market
Marshfield's low wildfire rating (14th 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 Marshfield
Marshfield's 71.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marshfield's 27,084-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Marshfield, see the exposure-zones guide.