Brookmont, MD
Brookmont, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brookmont lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,329 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brookmont at the 13th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brookmont's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 68.6% of Brookmont's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 31.5% Minimal share — a profile where 911 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Brookmont ranks
Brookmont scores 14th nationally and 11th within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookmont ranks 27,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,931 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 466 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Brookmont and the insurance market
Brookmont's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
Hardening a home in Brookmont
Because Direct exposure dominates in Brookmont (68.6%), 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 Brookmont's 27,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brookmont, see the exposure-zones guide.