Gambrills, MD
Gambrills wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Gambrills lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,540 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gambrills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Gambrills's building exposure, zone by zone
66.5% of Gambrills's 1,540 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,024 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 3.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 30.5% are Minimal.
How Gambrills compares
Within Maryland, Gambrills ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gambrills ranks 21,361 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 264 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Gambrills and the insurance market
Gambrills's moderate rating (32nd 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
With 66.5% of Gambrills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gambrills's 21,361-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gambrills, see the exposure-zones guide.