Glenn Dale, MD
Glenn Dale, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glenn Dale's 4,777 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glenn Dale at the 33rd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Glenn Dale's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Glenn Dale's 4,777 counted buildings, 61.6% carry Direct exposure and only 30.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Glenn Dale against the rest of the country
Glenn Dale's 52nd-percentile standing inside Maryland outpaces its 34th 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, Glenn Dale ranks 20,894 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 255 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
Glenn Dale's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Glenn Dale (61.6%), 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
Glenn Dale's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glenn Dale, see the exposure-zones guide.