Jarrettsville, MD
Jarrettsville, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Jarrettsville at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,659 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jarrettsville at the 12th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Jarrettsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93.7% of Jarrettsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 6.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,555 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Jarrettsville against the rest of the country
Jarrettsville scores 15th nationally and 14th 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, Jarrettsville ranks 26,913 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,565 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 455 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 15th national percentile, Jarrettsville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Jarrettsville
Jarrettsville's 93.7% 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 Jarrettsville's 26,913-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jarrettsville, see the exposure-zones guide.