Hillandale, MD
Hillandale wildfire risk explained
Hillandale's 1,869 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hillandale at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 44.8% of Hillandale's 1,869 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Hillandale compares
Hillandale scores 19th nationally and 23rd within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillandale ranks 25,590 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,851 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 407 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillandale
Hillandale's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Hardening a home in Hillandale
With 52.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hillandale 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,869 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hillandale. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hillandale, see the exposure-zones guide.