Centreville, MD
Centreville, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Centreville's 2,000 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Centreville at the 30th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Centreville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 46.7% of Centreville's 2,000 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32% Direct and 21.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Centreville against the rest of the country
Within Maryland, Centreville ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centreville ranks 21,867 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,478 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 277 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Centreville and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Centreville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Centreville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Centreville (46.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Centreville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Centreville's 21,867-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Centreville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.