Dundalk, MD
Dundalk, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dundalk at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 15,357 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dundalk at the 26th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Dundalk's building exposure, zone by zone
Dundalk rates 95.1% Minimal exposure against just 3.3% Direct and 1.5% Indirect — of 15,357 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 15,357 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Dundalk ranks
There's little gap between Dundalk's 27th national percentile and its 41st percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dundalk ranks 23,000 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 963 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 314 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dundalk
Dundalk's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Dundalk
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dundalk gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 15,357 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dundalk. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dundalk, see the exposure-zones guide.