Cranfills Gap, TX
Cranfills Gap, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cranfills Gap sits at the 96th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 225 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cranfills Gap at the 95th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
63.6% of Cranfills Gap's 225 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Cranfills Gap against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cranfills Gap's 96th national percentile and its 96th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cranfills Gap ranks 1,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,964 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 70 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cranfills Gap
Cranfills Gap's very high rating (96th 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.
Hardening a home in Cranfills Gap
Cranfills Gap's 63.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cranfills Gap's figures come from
Cranfills Gap's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cranfills Gap's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.