Burnt Mills, MD
Burnt Mills wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Burnt Mills at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 892 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burnt Mills at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Where Burnt Mills's buildings actually sit
892 buildings are counted in Burnt Mills, and 66.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Burnt Mills compares
Burnt Mills scores 13th nationally and 10th 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, Burnt Mills ranks 27,293 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 474 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Burnt Mills and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Burnt Mills rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Burnt Mills (66.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Burnt Mills's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Burnt Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.