Shaft, MD
Shaft, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shaft at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 150 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 Shaft at the 49th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Shaft's building exposure, zone by zone
98.7% of Shaft's 150 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 148 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 1.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Shaft against the rest of the country
Shaft's 70th-percentile standing inside Maryland outpaces its 50th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shaft ranks 15,631 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 159 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shaft
Shaft's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Hardening a home in Shaft
Shaft's 98.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 150 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shaft. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Shaft, see the exposure-zones guide.