Greensboro, MD
How exposed is Greensboro to wildfire?
USFS scores Greensboro at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 817 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greensboro at the 35th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Greensboro's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Greensboro (72.1% of 817 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Greensboro compares
Compare Greensboro's two percentiles: 54th within Maryland, only 36th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensboro ranks 20,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 241 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greensboro
At the 36th national percentile, Greensboro rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Greensboro
Greensboro's 72.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 817 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greensboro. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Greensboro, see the exposure-zones guide.