Brownsville, MD
Brownsville wildfire risk explained
Brownsville sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 78 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 Brownsville at the 60th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where Brownsville's buildings actually sit
78 buildings are counted in Brownsville, and 83.3% 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.
Where Brownsville ranks
Brownsville's 88th-percentile standing inside Maryland outpaces its 61st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 12,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,965 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 67 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Brownsville and the insurance market
Brownsville's high rating (61st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownsville's 83.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Brownsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsville's 12,352-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brownsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.