Center, TX
How exposed is Center to wildfire?
USFS scores Center at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,930 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Center at the 65th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Center's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 59.1% of Center's 2,930 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Center compares
Inside Texas, Center sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 64th 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 ranks 11,392 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,449 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Center and the insurance market
Center's high rating (64th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Center's 59.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Center's 11,392-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Center, see the exposure-zones guide.