Suitland, MD
Suitland wildfire risk explained
Suitland sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,808 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Suitland at the 24th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Suitland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.7% of Suitland's 4,808 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Suitland ranks
There's little gap between Suitland's 24th national percentile and its 34th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Suitland ranks 24,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,551 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 351 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Suitland's moderate rating (24th 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
Suitland's 89.4% 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 4,808 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Suitland. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Suitland, see the exposure-zones guide.