Maryland Park, MD
How exposed is Maryland Park to wildfire?
Maryland Park's 357 buildings earn a 27th-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 Maryland Park at the 27th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Maryland Park's buildings (91.6% of 357) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Maryland Park compares
There's little gap between Maryland Park's 27th national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maryland Park ranks 23,131 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 319 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Maryland Park and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Maryland Park 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
Maryland Park's 91.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 357 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maryland Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maryland Park, see the exposure-zones guide.