Dumas, TX
How exposed is Dumas to wildfire?
Dumas's 6,533 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dumas at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Dumas's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Dumas (85.8% of 6,533 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 3.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,533 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Dumas compares
Dumas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dumas ranks 485 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,660 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 19 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dumas
Dumas's 99th-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 Dumas
Because 85.8% of Dumas's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Dumas's figures come from
Dumas's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dumas's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.