Dickens, TX
Dickens, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dickens lands at the 96th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 337 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dickens at the 94th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Dickens's 337 counted buildings, 67.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Dickens against the rest of the country
Dickens's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dickens ranks 1,210 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 59 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dickens
Dickens's 96th-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 Dickens
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dickens (67.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dickens's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dickens, see the exposure-zones guide.