North Brentwood, MD
How exposed is North Brentwood to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Brentwood at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 230 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Brentwood at the 23rd national percentile — 2 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
North Brentwood rates 92.6% Minimal exposure against just 7.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 230 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
North Brentwood against the rest of the country
North Brentwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Brentwood ranks 24,898 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,796 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 380 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Brentwood
At the 21st national percentile, North Brentwood rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
North Brentwood's 92.6% 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
North Brentwood's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Brentwood, see the exposure-zones guide.