Burleson, TX
Burleson, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Burleson at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 18,102 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burleson at the 83rd percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Burleson's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Burleson (48.1% of 18,102 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 21.7% sit in the Direct zone. At 18,102 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Burleson compares
There's little gap between Burleson's 83rd national percentile and its 70th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burleson ranks 5,243 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 790 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 534 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
Burleson's very high rating (83rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Burleson's 48.1% 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
Burleson's 83rd-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 Burleson, see the exposure-zones guide.