Mount Aetna, MD
Mount Aetna wildfire risk explained
Mount Aetna's 311 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Aetna at the 56th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Mount Aetna's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Mount Aetna's 311 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 311 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Mount Aetna ranks
Within Maryland, Mount Aetna ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (60th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Aetna ranks 12,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 81 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Aetna
Mount Aetna's elevated rating (60th 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 Mount Aetna
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mount Aetna (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Aetna's 12,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Aetna, see the exposure-zones guide.