Pikesville, MD
How exposed is Pikesville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pikesville lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 7,728 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pikesville at the 10th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pikesville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 39.2% of Pikesville's 7,728 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,728 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pikesville ranks
Pikesville scores 11th nationally and 7th 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, Pikesville ranks 27,929 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 491 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 11th national percentile, Pikesville 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
Pikesville's 60.6% 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.
Where Pikesville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,728 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pikesville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pikesville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.