Largo, MD
Largo, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Largo at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,981 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Largo at the 28th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
40.5% of Largo's 2,981 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 28.3% Direct and 31.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Largo compares
There's little gap between Largo's 28th national percentile and its 43rd percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Largo ranks 22,562 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,465 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 299 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Largo and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Largo 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
Because 40.5% of Largo's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Largo's 22,562-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Largo, see the exposure-zones guide.