Brookeville, MD
Brookeville wildfire risk explained
Brookeville sits at the 17th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 76 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookeville at the 16th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Brookeville's buildings actually sit
76 buildings are counted in Brookeville, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Brookeville compares
Brookeville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (19th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookeville ranks 26,095 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,047 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 426 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookeville
At the 17th national percentile, Brookeville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Brookeville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Brookeville (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookeville's 26,095-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brookeville, see the exposure-zones guide.