Bastrop, TX
Bastrop, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bastrop's 4,271 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bastrop at the 68th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Bastrop's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Bastrop's buildings (67.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Bastrop compares
Inside Texas, Bastrop sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Bastrop ranks 10,348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,999 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,348 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bastrop's 67th-percentile, 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 Bastrop
Bastrop's 67.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Bastrop's figures come from
Bastrop's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bastrop's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.