Blackwell, TX
Blackwell, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blackwell's 330 buildings earn a 92nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blackwell at the 92nd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Blackwell's buildings (80.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Blackwell compares
There's little gap between Blackwell's 92nd national percentile and its 90th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackwell ranks 2,435 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,833 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 185 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
Blackwell's very high rating (92nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Blackwell (80.3% 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
Blackwell's 92nd-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 Blackwell, see the exposure-zones guide.