Brentwood, MD
Brentwood wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brentwood lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 904 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brentwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 23rd percentile nationally.
Where Brentwood's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.7% of Brentwood's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Brentwood ranks
Brentwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brentwood ranks 24,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,681 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 372 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brentwood's moderate wildfire rating (21st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Brentwood's 94.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brentwood's 24,771-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brentwood, see the exposure-zones guide.