Driscoll, TX
Driscoll wildfire risk explained
Driscoll's 422 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Driscoll's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 77.5% of Driscoll's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Driscoll against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Driscoll's 11th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Driscoll ranks 28,067 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,790 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Driscoll
At the 11th national percentile, Driscoll rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 77.5% of Driscoll outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Driscoll's 28,067-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Driscoll, see the exposure-zones guide.