Canyon Creek, TX
Canyon Creek wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Canyon Creek lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 812 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canyon Creek at the 89th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
812 buildings are counted in Canyon Creek, and 58.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 34% rated Minimal.
Where Canyon Creek ranks
Canyon Creek scores 90th nationally and 84th 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, Canyon Creek ranks 3,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,539 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 284 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canyon Creek
Canyon Creek's 90th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 58.6% of Canyon Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canyon Creek's 3,100-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Canyon Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.