Chevy Chase View, MD
Chevy Chase View, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chevy Chase View at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 351 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chevy Chase View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Where Chevy Chase View's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Chevy Chase View: 73.5% of its 351 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 26.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Chevy Chase View against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Chevy Chase View's 7th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chevy Chase View ranks 29,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,280 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 520 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Chevy Chase View and the insurance market
Chevy Chase View's low wildfire rating (7th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 73.5% of Chevy Chase View in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chevy Chase View's 29,254-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chevy Chase View, see the exposure-zones guide.