Balch Springs, TX
Balch Springs, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Balch Springs at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,404 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Balch Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Balch Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
60.2% of Balch Springs's 9,404 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,404 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Balch Springs ranks
Inside Texas, Balch Springs sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Balch Springs ranks 12,144 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,508 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Balch Springs
Balch Springs's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Balch Springs's 60.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Balch Springs's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,404 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Balch Springs. The exposure-zones guide covers what Balch Springs's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.