Perryville, MD
Perryville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Perryville at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,425 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 Perryville at the 26th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Perryville's building exposure, zone by zone
1,425 buildings are counted in Perryville, and 40.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.2% in Direct exposure or the 22.7% rated Minimal.
Where Perryville ranks
Perryville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perryville ranks 22,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,503 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 303 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perryville
Perryville's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Perryville's 40.1% 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 Perryville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Perryville's 22,687-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Perryville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.