Dodson, TX
How exposed is Dodson to wildfire?
USFS scores Dodson at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 107 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dodson's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
Dodson's building exposure, zone by zone
53.3% of Dodson's 107 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 57 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 46.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Dodson ranks
Dodson ranks lower within Texas (65th 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, Dodson ranks 5,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,753 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 635 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dodson
Dodson's 81st-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 Dodson
Dodson's 53.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dodson's 5,876-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dodson, see the exposure-zones guide.