Still Pond, MD
Still Pond, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Still Pond's 112 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Still Pond at the 17th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Still Pond's building exposure, zone by zone
112 buildings are counted in Still Pond, and 52.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Still Pond ranks
There's little gap between Still Pond's 18th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Still Pond ranks 25,745 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 411 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Still Pond and the insurance market
Still Pond's low wildfire rating (18th 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 52.7% of Still Pond in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 112 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Still Pond. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Still Pond, see the exposure-zones guide.