Fairmount Heights, MD
Fairmount Heights, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fairmount Heights's 638 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairmount Heights at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Fairmount Heights rates 97.2% Minimal exposure against just 2.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 638 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Fairmount Heights against the rest of the country
Fairmount Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (25th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairmount Heights ranks 23,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 343 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 25th national percentile, Fairmount 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.
Hardening a home in Fairmount Heights
Fairmount Heights's 97.2% 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.
Where Fairmount Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 638 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fairmount Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairmount Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.