Adamstown, MD
How exposed is Adamstown to wildfire?
Adamstown's 889 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Adamstown at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Adamstown: 50.1% of its 889 buildings, versus 49.2% Indirect and 0.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Adamstown compares
There's little gap between Adamstown's 6th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adamstown ranks 29,535 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 527 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Adamstown
Adamstown's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Adamstown
Adamstown's 50.1% 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 Adamstown's 29,535-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Adamstown, see the exposure-zones guide.