Forest Glen, MD
How exposed is Forest Glen to wildfire?
USFS scores Forest Glen at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,829 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 Forest Glen at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Forest Glen's buildings actually sit
Forest Glen rates 65.8% Minimal exposure against just 31.2% Direct and 3% Indirect — of 1,829 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Forest Glen against the rest of the country
Forest Glen's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Glen ranks 29,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,985 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 525 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Glen
Forest Glen's low wildfire rating (7th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 65.8% of Forest Glen outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Glen's 29,408-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Forest Glen, see the exposure-zones guide.