Glenarden, MD
How exposed is Glenarden to wildfire?
USFS scores Glenarden at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,743 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glenarden at the 25th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Glenarden's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 92.8% of Glenarden's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Glenarden ranks
Glenarden scores 24th nationally and 34th within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenarden ranks 23,987 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 350 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Glenarden's moderate rating (24th 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 92.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Glenarden 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
Glenarden's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glenarden, see the exposure-zones guide.