Beeville, TX
Beeville wildfire risk explained
Beeville's 6,032 buildings earn a 78th-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 Beeville at the 78th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
45% of Beeville's 6,032 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,032 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Beeville compares
Inside Texas, Beeville sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Beeville ranks 7,098 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 823 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Beeville and the insurance market
Beeville's 78th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Beeville's 45% 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 Beeville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beeville's 7,098-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beeville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.