Blue Berry Hill, TX
How exposed is Blue Berry Hill to wildfire?
Blue Berry Hill's 489 buildings earn a 75th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blue Berry Hill at the 74th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blue Berry Hill's buildings actually sit
63% of Blue Berry Hill's 489 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 308 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 37% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Blue Berry Hill compares
Blue Berry Hill's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Berry Hill ranks 7,925 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 970 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Blue Berry Hill and the insurance market
Blue Berry Hill's 75th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Blue Berry Hill (63%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Blue Berry Hill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Berry Hill's 7,925-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blue Berry Hill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.