Woodlawn (Baltimore), MD
Woodlawn (Baltimore) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Woodlawn (Baltimore) lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 8,990 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodlawn (Baltimore) at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Woodlawn (Baltimore) rates 65.5% Minimal exposure against just 21.2% Direct and 13.3% Indirect — of 8,990 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,990 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Woodlawn (Baltimore) compares
Woodlawn (Baltimore)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to Maryland (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodlawn (Baltimore) ranks 26,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 454 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodlawn (Baltimore)
Woodlawn (Baltimore)'s low wildfire rating (15th 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
Woodlawn (Baltimore)'s 65.5% 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 8,990 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Woodlawn (Baltimore). For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodlawn (Baltimore), see the exposure-zones guide.