Byers, TX
Byers wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Byers at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 389 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byers at the 93rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Byers's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Byers (58.9% of 389 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 41.1% sit in the Direct zone.
How Byers compares
Byers scores 93rd nationally and 92nd within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byers ranks 2,150 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 149 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Byers and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Byers carries the very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 58.9% of Byers'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Byers's 2,150-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Byers, see the exposure-zones guide.