District Heights, MD
District Heights wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, District Heights lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,897 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, District Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
Where District Heights's buildings actually sit
Only 15.2% of District Heights's 1,897 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
District Heights against the rest of the country
There's little gap between District Heights's 27th national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, District Heights ranks 23,129 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 317 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
District Heights and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, District Heights rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
District Heights's 84.8% 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
District Heights's 27th-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 District Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.