Marlboro Village, MD
How exposed is Marlboro Village to wildfire?
Marlboro Village's 2,977 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marlboro Village at the 36th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Marlboro Village's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Marlboro Village (69.4% of 2,977 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Marlboro Village compares
Compare Marlboro Village's two percentiles: 55th within Maryland, only 36th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marlboro Village ranks 20,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,475 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 240 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Marlboro Village
Marlboro Village's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Marlboro Village's 69.4% 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
Marlboro Village's 36th-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 Marlboro Village, see the exposure-zones guide.