Lexington Park, MD
How exposed is Lexington Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lexington Park at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,295 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lexington Park at the 69th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lexington Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lexington Park's buildings (58.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Lexington Park ranks
Compare Lexington Park's two percentiles: 92nd within Maryland, only 68th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lexington Park ranks 9,990 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,055 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 43 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Lexington Park and the insurance market
Lexington Park's 68th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Lexington Park's 58.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lexington Park's 68th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lexington Park, see the exposure-zones guide.