Seat Pleasant, MD
Seat Pleasant, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Seat Pleasant at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,483 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 Seat Pleasant at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Seat Pleasant's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 6.4% of Seat Pleasant's 1,483 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Seat Pleasant ranks
Seat Pleasant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (40th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seat Pleasant ranks 23,001 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 315 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Seat Pleasant
Seat Pleasant's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Seat Pleasant's 93.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,483 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Seat Pleasant. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Seat Pleasant, see the exposure-zones guide.