Brooklyn Park, MD
Brooklyn Park, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brooklyn Park lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,924 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brooklyn Park at the 21st percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Where Brooklyn Park's buildings actually sit
94.1% of Brooklyn Park's 4,924 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Brooklyn Park ranks
There's little gap between Brooklyn Park's 20th national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn Park ranks 25,118 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 391 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
Brooklyn Park's moderate rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 94.1% of Brooklyn Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Brooklyn Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brooklyn Park's 25,118-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brooklyn Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.