Randallstown, MD
How exposed is Randallstown to wildfire?
Randallstown sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,935 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Randallstown at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Randallstown's buildings actually sit
45.2% of Randallstown's 8,935 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 39.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 8,935 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Randallstown ranks
Randallstown scores 14th nationally and 13th 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, Randallstown ranks 26,977 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 458 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Randallstown
Randallstown's low wildfire rating (14th 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
With 45.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Randallstown gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,935 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Randallstown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Randallstown, see the exposure-zones guide.