Hyattsville, MD
How exposed is Hyattsville to wildfire?
USFS scores Hyattsville at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,426 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hyattsville at the 23rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hyattsville's buildings actually sit
Hyattsville rates 91.5% Minimal exposure against just 8.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,426 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Hyattsville ranks
Hyattsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hyattsville ranks 24,648 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,855 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 368 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Hyattsville and the insurance market
Hyattsville's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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 Hyattsville
Even with 91.5% of Hyattsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,426 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hyattsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hyattsville, see the exposure-zones guide.