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Cisco wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cisco lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,776 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cisco at the 88th 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
Most of Cisco's buildings (71.8%) 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.
Cisco against the rest of the country
Cisco's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cisco ranks 3,511 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,814 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 322 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cisco
At the 89th percentile nationally, Cisco carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cisco (71.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cisco's 3,511-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cisco, see the exposure-zones guide.