Aquilla, TX
How exposed is Aquilla to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Aquilla at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 106 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Aquilla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Where Aquilla's buildings actually sit
56.6% of Aquilla's 106 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Aquilla ranks
Aquilla's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aquilla ranks 4,829 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,787 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 487 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aquilla
Aquilla's 85th-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.
Hardening a home in Aquilla
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Aquilla (56.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Aquilla's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Aquilla, see the exposure-zones guide.