Takoma Park, MD
Takoma Park, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Takoma Park at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,135 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Takoma Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
66.1% of Takoma Park's 4,135 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 33.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Takoma Park compares
Takoma Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Takoma Park ranks 24,865 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 378 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Takoma Park
At the 21st national percentile, Takoma Park rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 66.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Takoma Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Takoma Park's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Takoma Park, see the exposure-zones guide.