Glen Burnie, MD
How exposed is Glen Burnie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glen Burnie at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 19,188 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glen Burnie at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87% of Glen Burnie's 19,188 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 19,188 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Glen Burnie ranks
Glen Burnie's 44th-percentile standing inside Maryland outpaces its 28th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Burnie ranks 22,534 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 297 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glen Burnie
At the 28th national percentile, Glen Burnie 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 Glen Burnie
With 87% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Glen Burnie gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 19,188 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glen Burnie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glen Burnie, see the exposure-zones guide.