Clarysville, MD
How exposed is Clarysville to wildfire?
Clarysville sits at the 56th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 48 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarysville at the 53rd percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
48 buildings are counted in Clarysville, and 54.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Clarysville against the rest of the country
Compare Clarysville's two percentiles: 79th within Maryland, only 56th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarysville ranks 13,836 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,975 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 111 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clarysville
Clarysville's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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 54.2% of Clarysville 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
Clarysville's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clarysville, see the exposure-zones guide.