Fairland, MD
Fairland wildfire risk explained
Fairland's 2,968 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairland at the 17th national percentile — 1 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
USFS classifies 53.2% of Fairland's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.7% Indirect share and far above its 44.1% Minimal share — a profile where 1,579 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Fairland against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fairland's 18th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairland ranks 25,812 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 414 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairland
Fairland's low rating (18th 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
Fairland's 53.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Fairland's 18th-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 Fairland, see the exposure-zones guide.