Bowmans Addition, MD
How exposed is Bowmans Addition to wildfire?
Bowmans Addition's 330 buildings earn a 55th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bowmans Addition's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
Where Bowmans Addition's buildings actually sit
Of Bowmans Addition's 330 counted buildings, 88.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Bowmans Addition compares
Within Maryland, Bowmans Addition ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (55th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowmans Addition ranks 14,183 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 119 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Bowmans Addition and the insurance market
Bowmans Addition's elevated rating (55th 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 Bowmans Addition
Bowmans Addition's 88.8% 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
Bowmans Addition's 55th-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 Bowmans Addition, see the exposure-zones guide.