Andrews AFB, MD
Andrews AFB, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Andrews AFB at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,464 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Andrews AFB at the 26th 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
Andrews AFB rates 81.6% Minimal exposure against just 9.8% Direct and 8.6% Indirect — of 1,464 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Andrews AFB compares
There's little gap between Andrews AFB's 26th national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Andrews AFB ranks 23,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,335 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 321 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Andrews AFB
At the 26th national percentile, Andrews AFB rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 81.6% of Andrews AFB outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Andrews AFB's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Andrews AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.