Walker Mill, MD
Walker Mill, MD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Walker Mill at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,380 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walker Mill at the 26th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Walker Mill's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 80.4% of Walker Mill's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 19.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Walker Mill compares
There's little gap between Walker Mill's 26th national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Maryland, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walker Mill ranks 23,231 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 324 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
Walker Mill's moderate rating (26th 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
With 80.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Walker Mill 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walker Mill's 23,231-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Walker Mill, see the exposure-zones guide.