Denton, TX
Denton, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Denton's 42,873 buildings earn a 81st-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Denton at the 82nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Denton's building exposure, zone by zone
Denton rates 48.1% Minimal exposure against just 19.9% Direct and 31.9% Indirect — of 42,873 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 42,873 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Denton against the rest of the country
Denton ranks lower within Texas (64th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denton ranks 5,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 645 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Denton and the insurance market
Denton's very high rating (81st 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 Denton
Denton's 48.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Denton's 5,972-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Denton, see the exposure-zones guide.