Travilah, MD
Travilah, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Travilah lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,468 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Travilah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Where Travilah's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Travilah: 84.3% of its 4,468 buildings, versus 15.5% Indirect and 0.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Travilah ranks
Travilah's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Travilah ranks 25,622 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,821 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 409 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Travilah
Travilah's low wildfire rating (19th 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
Travilah's 84.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Travilah's 25,622-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Travilah, see the exposure-zones guide.