Buckholts, TX
Buckholts, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Buckholts's 306 buildings earn a 73rd-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 Buckholts at the 72nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Buckholts's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 58.8% of Buckholts's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 41.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 180 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Buckholts compares
Buckholts's 73rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 40th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buckholts ranks 8,457 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,485 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,076 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Buckholts
Buckholts's high rating (73rd 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 Buckholts
Because Direct exposure dominates in Buckholts (58.8%), 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 Buckholts's 8,457-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Buckholts, see the exposure-zones guide.