Berwyn Heights, MD
How exposed is Berwyn Heights to wildfire?
Berwyn Heights sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,213 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Berwyn Heights at the 28th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Berwyn Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Berwyn Heights rates 86.3% Minimal exposure against just 13.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,213 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Berwyn Heights compares
Berwyn Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (42nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Berwyn Heights ranks 22,781 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 306 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berwyn Heights
At the 28th national percentile, Berwyn Heights 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
With 86.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Berwyn Heights gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Berwyn Heights's 22,781-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Berwyn Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.