Woodmore, MD
How exposed is Woodmore to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodmore at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,911 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodmore at the 30th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Woodmore's buildings actually sit
Of Woodmore's 1,911 counted buildings, 66.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Woodmore compares
Within Maryland, Woodmore ranks higher (48th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodmore ranks 21,868 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,728 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 278 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
Woodmore and the insurance market
Woodmore's moderate rating (31st 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 66.1% of Woodmore in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodmore's 21,868-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Woodmore, see the exposure-zones guide.