Alvord, TX
Alvord, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Alvord sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 721 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alvord's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 92nd percentile nationally.
Alvord's building exposure, zone by zone
721 buildings are counted in Alvord, and 66.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Alvord against the rest of the country
Alvord scores 91st nationally and 87th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alvord ranks 2,781 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 233 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Alvord and the insurance market
Alvord's 91st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 66.2% of Alvord'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alvord's 2,781-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alvord, see the exposure-zones guide.