Center Point, TX
Center Point wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Center Point lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,131 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Center Point at the 79th 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
Of Center Point's 1,131 counted buildings, 87.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Center Point ranks
Inside Texas, Center Point sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 80th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Center Point ranks 6,219 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,076 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 682 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Center Point and the insurance market
Center Point's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Center Point
Center Point's 87.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,131 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Center Point. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Center Point, see the exposure-zones guide.