Brookview, MD
Brookview, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Brookview at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 45 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brookview's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Where Brookview's buildings actually sit
45 buildings are counted in Brookview, and 51.1% 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.
Brookview against the rest of the country
Compare Brookview's two percentiles: 95th within Maryland, only 75th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookview ranks 7,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,043 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 29 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookview
Brookview's high rating (75th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 51.1% of Brookview in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brookview's 75th-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 Brookview, see the exposure-zones guide.