Long Beach, MD
Long Beach, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Long Beach's 799 buildings earn a 73rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Long Beach's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Long Beach's 799 counted buildings, 68.2% carry Direct exposure and only 1.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Long Beach compares
Compare Long Beach's two percentiles: 94th within Maryland, only 73rd nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Beach ranks 8,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,642 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 33 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Long Beach and the insurance market
Long Beach's 73rd-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.
Hardening a home in Long Beach
Long Beach's 68.2% 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.
Where Long Beach's figures come from
Long Beach's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Long Beach's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.