New Carrollton, MD
New Carrollton, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores New Carrollton at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,509 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Carrollton at the 26th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
New Carrollton's building exposure, zone by zone
91.8% of New Carrollton's 2,509 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How New Carrollton compares
New Carrollton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Carrollton ranks 23,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 336 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Carrollton
New Carrollton's moderate rating (26th 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 New Carrollton
New Carrollton's 91.8% 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 New Carrollton's 23,449-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Carrollton, see the exposure-zones guide.