Huntingtown, MD
Huntingtown wildfire risk explained
Huntingtown sits at the 58th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,575 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Huntingtown at the 58th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Huntingtown's buildings actually sit
Of Huntingtown's 1,575 counted buildings, 95.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Huntingtown compares
Compare Huntingtown's two percentiles: 82nd within Maryland, only 58th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huntingtown ranks 13,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,858 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 95 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Huntingtown and the insurance market
Huntingtown's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Huntingtown's 95.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huntingtown's 13,268-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Huntingtown, see the exposure-zones guide.