Spring Ridge, MD
How exposed is Spring Ridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Spring Ridge at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,318 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Spring Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Spring Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
61.1% of Spring Ridge's 1,318 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 38.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Spring Ridge against the rest of the country
Spring Ridge's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spring Ridge ranks 27,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,979 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 464 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Spring Ridge
Spring Ridge's low wildfire rating (14th 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
Because 61.1% of Spring Ridge's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Spring Ridge's 14th-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 Spring Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.