Williamsport, MD
How exposed is Williamsport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Williamsport lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 654 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Williamsport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Williamsport's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 85.8% of Williamsport's 654 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 14.1% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Williamsport compares
Williamsport scores 25th nationally and 34th within Maryland — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williamsport ranks 23,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,151 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 346 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Williamsport and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Williamsport 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
Because 85.8% of Williamsport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Williamsport's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Williamsport, see the exposure-zones guide.