Landover Hills, MD
How exposed is Landover Hills to wildfire?
Landover Hills's 612 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Landover Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
Landover Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Landover Hills rates 87.9% Minimal exposure against just 12.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 612 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Landover Hills compares
Landover Hills scores 19th nationally and 22nd 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, Landover Hills ranks 25,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,670 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 410 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Landover Hills and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Landover Hills 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 Landover Hills
With 87.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Landover Hills gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Landover Hills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Landover Hills's 25,687-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Landover Hills's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.