Duncanville, TX
Duncanville, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Duncanville at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 13,712 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Duncanville at the 58th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Duncanville's buildings actually sit
Only 18% of Duncanville's 13,712 buildings carry Direct exposure and 11% carry Indirect; the remaining 71% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 13,712 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Duncanville compares
Duncanville's 58th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th 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, Duncanville ranks 13,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,104 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,583 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
At the 58th national percentile, Duncanville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 71% of Duncanville 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.
Where Duncanville's figures come from
Duncanville's 58th-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 Duncanville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.