Marysville, CA
How exposed is Marysville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marysville lands at the 79th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,987 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marysville at the 79th national percentile — 0 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Marysville (98.7% of 3,987 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 1.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Marysville ranks
Inside California, Marysville sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 79th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marysville ranks 6,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,260 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 959 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Marysville and the insurance market
Marysville sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 79th-percentile score like Marysville's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Marysville
Because 98.7% of Marysville'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 Marysville's 6,582-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Marysville, see the exposure-zones guide.