Box Canyon, TX
Box Canyon, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Box Canyon at the 78th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 138 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 Box Canyon at the 78th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Box Canyon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Box Canyon's 138 counted buildings, 52.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Box Canyon against the rest of the country
Box Canyon ranks lower within Texas (56th percentile statewide) than its 78th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Box Canyon ranks 6,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,383 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 788 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Box Canyon
At the 78th percentile nationally, Box Canyon carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Box Canyon (52.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Box Canyon's 6,909-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Box Canyon, see the exposure-zones guide.