Burnet, TX
How exposed is Burnet to wildfire?
Burnet sits at the 85th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,117 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burnet at the 84th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Burnet's building exposure, zone by zone
3,117 buildings are counted in Burnet, and 67.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Burnet compares
There's little gap between Burnet's 85th national percentile and its 74th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burnet ranks 4,647 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,272 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 467 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Burnet and the insurance market
Burnet's very high rating (85th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 67.9% of Burnet's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,117 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Burnet. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Burnet, see the exposure-zones guide.