Deer Park, TX
How exposed is Deer Park to wildfire?
USFS scores Deer Park at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 13,299 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Deer Park at the 63rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98.8% of Deer Park's 13,299 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 13,299 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Deer Park against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Deer Park sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Deer Park ranks 12,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,512 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Deer Park's 61st-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 Deer Park
With 98.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Deer Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Deer Park's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Deer Park, see the exposure-zones guide.