Deale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.

[5] European settlers first arrived in Anne Arundel County around 1649 from southeast Virginia during the English Civil War to escape religious persecution.

[6] The land was mainly used for farming until around 1870, when watermen from Long Island and Maryland's Eastern Shore settled near Herring Bay's oyster beds.

[13] The community also has a thriving tourism sector due to its location on the Chesapeake Bay and heritage as a fishing village.

[15] Deale is served by the Anne Arundel County Police Southern District station in Edgewater.

The Deale Volunteer Fire Department, organized in 1946, serves the community and has a variety of fundraising and civic engagement events every year.

Deale was home to WRYR-LP, a low power community radio station owned and operated by the South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development (SACReD).

The station was built by numerous volunteers from Deale and around the region in February 2002 at the first Prometheus Radio Project barnraising.

WRYR-LP broadcast music, news, and public affairs to listeners at 97.5FM, until the station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on October 2, 2019.