Indian Head, MD
Indian Head, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Indian Head's 1,123 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Indian Head's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Where Indian Head's buildings actually sit
Indian Head rates 62.8% Minimal exposure against just 28.7% Direct and 8.6% Indirect — of 1,123 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Indian Head compares
Within Maryland, Indian Head ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Indian Head ranks 18,561 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 215 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 41st national percentile, Indian Head rates elevated 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
Even with 62.8% of Indian Head 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Indian Head's 18,561-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Indian Head, see the exposure-zones guide.