Del Rio, TX
Del Rio wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Del Rio lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 13,912 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 Del Rio at the 72nd percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Where Del Rio's buildings actually sit
81.3% of Del Rio's 13,912 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 15.4% Direct and 3.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 13,912 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Del Rio compares
Inside Texas, Del Rio sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Del Rio ranks 8,389 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,080 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,056 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Del Rio
At the 73rd percentile nationally, Del Rio carries the 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
Because 81.3% of Del Rio's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,912 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Del Rio. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Del Rio, see the exposure-zones guide.