Benavides, TX
Benavides wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Benavides lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,082 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Benavides at the 82nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Benavides's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73.3% of Benavides's 1,082 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Benavides ranks
Benavides's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (70th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Benavides ranks 5,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,399 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 540 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Benavides
Benavides's very high rating (83rd 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.
Hardening a home in Benavides
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Benavides (73.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Benavides's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Benavides, see the exposure-zones guide.