Clarksburg, MD
Clarksburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clarksburg at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 6,287 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clarksburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.4% of Clarksburg's 6,287 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.2% Direct and 12.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 6,287 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Clarksburg compares
Clarksburg scores 20th nationally and 25th 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, Clarksburg ranks 25,152 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,759 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 395 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Clarksburg and the insurance market
Clarksburg's moderate rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.4% of Clarksburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarksburg's 25,152-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Clarksburg, see the exposure-zones guide.