Edinburg, TX
Edinburg, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Edinburg at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 32,121 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Edinburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Edinburg's buildings (89.7% of 32,121) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 32,121 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Edinburg compares
Edinburg ranks lower within Texas (39th percentile statewide) than its 73rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edinburg ranks 8,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 345 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,098 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Edinburg and the insurance market
Edinburg's 73rd-percentile, 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
Edinburg's 89.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Edinburg's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edinburg, see the exposure-zones guide.