Rosedale, MD
How exposed is Rosedale to wildfire?
Rosedale sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,957 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rosedale at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rosedale's buildings actually sit
Only 17.4% of Rosedale's 6,957 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,957 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Rosedale ranks
Rosedale scores 20th nationally and 25th 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, Rosedale ranks 25,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 397 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rosedale
Rosedale's moderate wildfire rating (20th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rosedale 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
Rosedale's 20th-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 Rosedale, see the exposure-zones guide.