Friendship, MD
How exposed is Friendship to wildfire?
Friendship's 302 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Friendship's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
Where Friendship's buildings actually sit
Of Friendship's 302 counted buildings, 99% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Friendship compares
Compare Friendship's two percentiles: 70th within Maryland, only 50th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friendship ranks 15,879 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 161 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Friendship and the insurance market
Friendship's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Hardening a home in Friendship
Because Direct exposure dominates in Friendship (99%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 302 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Friendship. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Friendship, see the exposure-zones guide.