Aberdeen, MD
How exposed is Aberdeen to wildfire?
Aberdeen's 5,588 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aberdeen at the 20th national percentile — 0 points below 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 Aberdeen (57.5% of 5,588 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.5% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,588 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Aberdeen against the rest of the country
Aberdeen scores 21st nationally and 27th within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aberdeen ranks 25,059 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 387 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 21st national percentile, Aberdeen rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Aberdeen
Because 57.5% of Aberdeen'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,588 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Aberdeen. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Aberdeen, see the exposure-zones guide.