Greenbelt, MD
Greenbelt, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Greenbelt at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,185 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greenbelt at the 29th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Greenbelt's buildings (83.2% of 3,185) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Greenbelt against the rest of the country
Compare Greenbelt's two percentiles: 45th within Maryland, only 29th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenbelt ranks 22,312 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,180 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 291 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Greenbelt and the insurance market
Greenbelt's moderate rating (29th 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 83.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greenbelt 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenbelt's 22,312-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenbelt, see the exposure-zones guide.