Christoval, TX
Christoval wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Christoval at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 444 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Christoval's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Christoval's buildings (55.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Christoval compares
Christoval scores 98th nationally and 99th 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, Christoval ranks 671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 28 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Christoval and the insurance market
Christoval's 98th-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 Christoval
Because 55.2% of Christoval's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Christoval's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Christoval, see the exposure-zones guide.