Canutillo, TX
Canutillo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Canutillo at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,773 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 Canutillo at the 28th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Canutillo rates 63.5% Minimal exposure against just 11% Direct and 25.5% Indirect — of 2,773 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Canutillo compares
Canutillo ranks lower within Texas (2nd percentile statewide) than its 31st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canutillo ranks 21,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,757 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
Canutillo's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Canutillo
Even with 63.5% of Canutillo outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Canutillo's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Canutillo, see the exposure-zones guide.