Driftwood, TX
Driftwood, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Driftwood's 141 buildings earn a 84th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Driftwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Driftwood's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Driftwood's 141 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 141 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Driftwood ranks
There's little gap between Driftwood's 84th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Driftwood ranks 5,053 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,268 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 513 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Driftwood
Driftwood's 84th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Driftwood (100%), 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
Driftwood's 84th-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 Driftwood, see the exposure-zones guide.