Boling, TX
Boling, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Boling lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 615 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boling's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Where Boling's buildings actually sit
Most of Boling's buildings (51.9%) 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 Boling compares
Boling ranks lower within Texas (62nd percentile statewide) than its 80th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boling ranks 6,190 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 680 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Boling and the insurance market
Boling's 80th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Boling's 51.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boling's 6,190-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boling, see the exposure-zones guide.