Montgomery Village, MD
Montgomery Village, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Montgomery Village at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,353 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Montgomery Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 47.7% of Montgomery Village's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 38.9% Direct and 13.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Montgomery Village against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Montgomery Village's 14th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Montgomery Village ranks 27,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,978 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 463 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Montgomery Village and the insurance market
Montgomery Village's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Montgomery Village
Montgomery Village's 47.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Montgomery Village's 27,043-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Montgomery Village, see the exposure-zones guide.