Barrera, TX
How exposed is Barrera to wildfire?
Barrera's 53 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Barrera's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Where Barrera's buildings actually sit
69.8% of Barrera's 53 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Barrera ranks
Barrera's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barrera ranks 4,234 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 409 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Barrera and the insurance market
At the 87th percentile nationally, Barrera 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.
Hardening a home in Barrera
Because 69.8% of Barrera'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barrera's 4,234-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Barrera, see the exposure-zones guide.