Friendship Heights Village, MD
Friendship Heights Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Friendship Heights Village at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 33 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Friendship Heights Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Friendship Heights Village's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Friendship Heights Village's 33 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Friendship Heights Village ranks
Friendship Heights Village's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friendship Heights Village ranks 28,398 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 503 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Friendship Heights Village
Friendship Heights Village's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Friendship Heights Village's 100% 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 Friendship Heights Village's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Friendship Heights Village's 28,398-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Friendship Heights Village's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.