Rising Sun, MD
Rising Sun wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rising Sun at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,096 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rising Sun at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rising Sun's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 50.8% of Rising Sun's 1,096 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.4% Direct and 2.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Rising Sun ranks
There's little gap between Rising Sun's 15th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rising Sun ranks 26,914 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,304 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 456 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rising Sun
Rising Sun's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rising Sun
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Rising Sun (50.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Rising Sun's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rising Sun, see the exposure-zones guide.