Snow Hill, MD
Snow Hill, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Snow Hill sits at the 57th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,242 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Snow Hill at the 57th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Snow Hill's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Snow Hill (78.7% of 1,242 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 21.3% sit in the Direct zone.
How Snow Hill compares
Within Maryland, Snow Hill ranks higher (81st percentile) than it does nationally (57th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snow Hill ranks 13,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,388 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 103 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Snow Hill
Snow Hill's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Snow Hill's 78.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Snow Hill's 57th-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 Snow Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.