Riverdale Park, MD
Riverdale Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Riverdale Park at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,687 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riverdale Park at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Riverdale Park's building exposure, zone by zone
90.2% of Riverdale Park's 1,687 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 9.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Riverdale Park against the rest of the country
Riverdale Park scores 26th nationally and 39th 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, Riverdale Park ranks 23,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,470 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 322 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 26th national percentile, Riverdale Park rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Riverdale Park
Even with 90.2% of Riverdale Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Riverdale Park's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Riverdale Park, see the exposure-zones guide.