Ackerly, TX
Ackerly wildfire risk explained
Ackerly sits at the 33rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 201 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ackerly at the 27th national percentile — 6 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
Only 27.4% of Ackerly's 201 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 72.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Ackerly compares
Inside Texas, Ackerly sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 33rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ackerly ranks 21,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,747 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ackerly
Ackerly's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Ackerly's 72.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ackerly's 21,035-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ackerly, see the exposure-zones guide.