Andrews, TX
Andrews, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Andrews at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 6,534 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Andrews at the 88th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Andrews's buildings actually sit
Most of Andrews's buildings (87.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 6,534 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Andrews compares
Andrews ranks lower within Texas (64th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Andrews ranks 5,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,657 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 640 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Andrews and the insurance market
At the 81st percentile nationally, Andrews carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 87.2% of Andrews'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,534 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Andrews. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Andrews, see the exposure-zones guide.