Cedar Park, TX
Cedar Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cedar Park at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 24,939 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 Cedar Park at the 72nd percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Cedar Park's buildings actually sit
Most of Cedar Park's buildings (61.3% of 24,939) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 24,939 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Cedar Park against the rest of the country
Cedar Park's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Park ranks 7,890 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 511 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 964 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cedar Park
Cedar Park's high rating (75th 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.
Hardening a home in Cedar Park
Even with 61.3% of Cedar Park 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
Cedar Park's 75th-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 Cedar Park, see the exposure-zones guide.