Dimmitt, TX
How exposed is Dimmitt to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dimmitt at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,062 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dimmitt at the 55th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Where Dimmitt's buildings actually sit
Only 6.4% of Dimmitt's 2,062 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Dimmitt compares
Dimmitt's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dimmitt ranks 12,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,309 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,543 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Dimmitt's elevated wildfire rating (60th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Dimmitt
With 93.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dimmitt gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Dimmitt's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dimmitt, see the exposure-zones guide.