Dennis, TX
Dennis wildfire risk explained
Dennis's 307 buildings earn a 94th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dennis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Dennis: 99.7% of its 307 buildings, versus 0.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Dennis against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dennis's 94th national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dennis ranks 1,774 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 108 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Dennis and the insurance market
Dennis's 94th-percentile, very 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 Dennis
Dennis's 99.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Dennis's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 307 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dennis. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dennis's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.