Kingsville, MD
How exposed is Kingsville to wildfire?
Kingsville sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,580 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kingsville at the 20th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kingsville's buildings actually sit
Of Kingsville's 2,580 counted buildings, 98.9% 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.
Kingsville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kingsville's 21st national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsville ranks 24,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 377 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Kingsville and the insurance market
At the 21st national percentile, Kingsville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kingsville's 98.9% 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 Kingsville's 24,864-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kingsville, see the exposure-zones guide.