Marshfield, WI
How exposed is Marshfield to wildfire?
USFS scores Marshfield at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,748 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 19.1% of Marshfield's 8,748 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,748 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Marshfield compares
Compare Marshfield's two percentiles: 41st within Wisconsin, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marshfield ranks 24,315 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 474 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marshfield
Marshfield's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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 78.6% 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.
Where Marshfield's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,748 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Marshfield. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marshfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.