Bishop Hills, TX
How exposed is Bishop Hills to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bishop Hills at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 125 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bishop Hills at the 96th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
125 buildings are counted in Bishop Hills, and 72% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 28% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Bishop Hills compares
Bishop Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bishop Hills ranks 1,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 57 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bishop Hills
Bishop Hills's very high rating (96th 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 Bishop Hills
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bishop Hills (72% 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
Bishop Hills's 96th-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 Bishop Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.