Chevy Chase, MD
Chevy Chase, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Chevy Chase at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chevy Chase at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Chevy Chase's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.5% of Chevy Chase's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 34.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Chevy Chase against the rest of the country
Chevy Chase's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chevy Chase ranks 27,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 492 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase's low rating (11th 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 Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase's 65.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Chevy Chase's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chevy Chase, see the exposure-zones guide.