Carney, MD
Carney, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Carney at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 6,612 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 Carney at the 15th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Where Carney's buildings actually sit
Only 33% of Carney's 6,612 buildings carry Direct exposure and 21% carry Indirect; the remaining 46% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,612 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Carney compares
Carney scores 16th nationally and 17th 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, Carney ranks 26,473 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 438 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Carney and the insurance market
Carney's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Carney
With 46% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Carney gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Carney's 26,473-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Carney, see the exposure-zones guide.