Barry, TX
Barry wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Barry at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 180 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barry at the 81st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Barry's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Barry: 82.8% of its 180 buildings, versus 17.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Barry against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Barry sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Barry ranks 5,684 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 606 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Barry and the insurance market
Barry's 82nd-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 Barry
Barry's 82.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 180 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Barry. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barry, see the exposure-zones guide.