Atascocita, TX
Atascocita wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Atascocita at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 28,303 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Atascocita at the 55th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Atascocita's building exposure, zone by zone
49% of Atascocita's 28,303 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 28,303 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Atascocita ranks
Inside Texas, Atascocita sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 52nd 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, Atascocita ranks 15,015 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 425 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,660 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Atascocita and the insurance market
Atascocita's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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
With 49% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Atascocita gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Atascocita's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Atascocita, see the exposure-zones guide.