Corpus Christi, TX
Corpus Christi, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Corpus Christi at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 124,095 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Corpus Christi's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 86.5% of Corpus Christi's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.1% Direct and 9.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 124,095 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Corpus Christi against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Corpus Christi's 83rd national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Corpus Christi ranks 5,336 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 51 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 550 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Corpus Christi and the insurance market
At the 83rd percentile nationally, Corpus Christi 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Corpus Christi's 86.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 124,095 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Corpus Christi. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Corpus Christi, see the exposure-zones guide.