Channelview, TX
How exposed is Channelview to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Channelview lands at the 60th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 18,031 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Channelview at the 61st percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Channelview's building exposure, zone by zone
Channelview rates 89% Minimal exposure against just 8% Direct and 2.9% Indirect — of 18,031 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 18,031 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Channelview ranks
Channelview's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Channelview ranks 12,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 797 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,540 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Channelview and the insurance market
Channelview's high rating (60th 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
Even with 89% of Channelview 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
Channelview's 60th-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 Channelview, see the exposure-zones guide.