Parkville, MD
Parkville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parkville at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,757 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parkville at the 15th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Parkville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90.9% of Parkville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,757 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Parkville compares
Parkville scores 14th nationally and 11th within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkville ranks 27,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,197 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 470 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 14th national percentile, Parkville rates low 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
Parkville's 90.9% 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
Parkville's 14th-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 Parkville, see the exposure-zones guide.