Green Valley, MD
How exposed is Green Valley to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Valley lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,461 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Green Valley at the 14th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Where Green Valley's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Green Valley: 96.2% of its 5,461 buildings, versus 3% Indirect and 0.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 5,461 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Green Valley against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Green Valley's 16th national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Valley ranks 26,567 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 443 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Green Valley
Green Valley's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 96.2% of Green Valley 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.
Where Green Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,461 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Green Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Green Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.