Danville, MD
How exposed is Danville to wildfire?
Danville's 199 buildings earn a 61st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Danville at the 58th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
100% of Danville's 199 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 199 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Danville ranks
Compare Danville's two percentiles: 88th within Maryland, only 61st nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 12,319 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 66 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Danville and the insurance market
Danville's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Danville's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Danville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Danville's 12,319-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Danville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.