Big Spring, TX
How exposed is Big Spring to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Big Spring at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 11,634 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Big Spring at the 87th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Big Spring's buildings actually sit
53.7% of Big Spring's 11,634 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 11,634 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Big Spring compares
Big Spring's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Big Spring ranks 3,701 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,350 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 344 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
At the 88th percentile nationally, Big Spring 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Big Spring's 53.7% 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 Big Spring's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 11,634 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Big Spring. The exposure-zones guide covers what Big Spring's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.