Bigfoot, TX
How exposed is Bigfoot to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bigfoot lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 626 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bigfoot at the 91st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bigfoot's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bigfoot: 99.4% of its 626 buildings, versus 0.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Bigfoot compares
Bigfoot's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bigfoot ranks 3,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,496 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 287 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
Bigfoot's 90th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.4% of Bigfoot in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Bigfoot's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 626 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bigfoot. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bigfoot's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.