Odenton, MD
How exposed is Odenton to wildfire?
USFS scores Odenton at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,172 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Odenton at the 32nd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Odenton's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Odenton's buildings (46.4% of 8,172) 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. At 8,172 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Odenton compares
Within Maryland, Odenton ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Odenton ranks 21,204 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,054 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 258 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Odenton
Odenton's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Odenton's 46.4% 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 Odenton's 21,204-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Odenton, see the exposure-zones guide.