Glen Echo, MD
Glen Echo, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Glen Echo at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 137 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Glen Echo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Glen Echo's building exposure, zone by zone
87.6% of Glen Echo's 137 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Glen Echo against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Glen Echo's 14th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Echo ranks 27,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,400 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 459 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Glen Echo and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Glen Echo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 87.6% of Glen Echo 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 Glen Echo's 27,006-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glen Echo, see the exposure-zones guide.