Dickinson, TX
Dickinson wildfire risk explained
Dickinson sits at the 82nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,753 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dickinson at the 86th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Dickinson's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 32.2% of Dickinson's 8,753 buildings carry Direct exposure and 31.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 36.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,753 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Dickinson ranks
Dickinson's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dickinson ranks 5,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,904 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 599 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Dickinson and the insurance market
Dickinson's 82nd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Dickinson's 36.7% 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.
Where Dickinson's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dickinson's 5,651-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dickinson's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.