Bishopville, MD
How exposed is Bishopville to wildfire?
Bishopville's 446 buildings earn a 38th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bishopville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
78.5% of Bishopville's 446 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 350 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 13.9% are Minimal.
Where Bishopville ranks
Within Maryland, Bishopville ranks higher (57th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bishopville ranks 19,506 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,348 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 226 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Bishopville and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Bishopville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Bishopville's 78.5% 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
Bishopville's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bishopville, see the exposure-zones guide.