Chula Vista (Zavala), TX
How exposed is Chula Vista (Zavala) to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chula Vista (Zavala) lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 205 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 Chula Vista (Zavala) at the 63rd percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Chula Vista (Zavala)'s building exposure, zone by zone
97.6% of Chula Vista (Zavala)'s 205 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 2.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Chula Vista (Zavala) compares
Inside Texas, Chula Vista (Zavala) sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 66th 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, Chula Vista (Zavala) ranks 10,728 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,676 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,381 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chula Vista (Zavala)
Chula Vista (Zavala)'s 66th-percentile, 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 Chula Vista (Zavala)
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Chula Vista (Zavala) (97.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Chula Vista (Zavala)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chula Vista (Zavala)'s 10,728-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chula Vista (Zavala)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.