Arlington, TX
Arlington wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Arlington at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 114,200 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arlington at the 61st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Arlington's buildings actually sit
Most of Arlington's buildings (83.8% of 114,200) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 114,200 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Arlington ranks
Inside Texas, Arlington sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 60th 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, Arlington ranks 12,654 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 54 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,547 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arlington
Arlington's elevated wildfire rating (60th 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.
Hardening a home in Arlington
Even with 83.8% of Arlington outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 114,200 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Arlington. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arlington, see the exposure-zones guide.