Perry Hall, MD
Perry Hall, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Perry Hall lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,953 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Perry Hall at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Perry Hall's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 47.7% of Perry Hall's 6,953 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.9% Direct and 24.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,953 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Perry Hall ranks
Perry Hall scores 17th nationally and 20th 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, Perry Hall ranks 26,063 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 425 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perry Hall
Perry Hall's low wildfire rating (17th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Perry Hall
Perry Hall's 47.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Perry Hall's figures come from
Perry Hall's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Perry Hall's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.