Hampton, MD
How exposed is Hampton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hampton at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,201 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hampton at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hampton's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Hampton: 86.6% of its 2,201 buildings, versus 12.1% Indirect and 1.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Hampton compares
There's little gap between Hampton's 15th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hampton ranks 26,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 450 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hampton
At the 15th national percentile, Hampton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Hampton's 86.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Hampton's figures come from
Hampton's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hampton's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.