El Cenizo (Webb), TX
El Cenizo (Webb) wildfire risk explained
El Cenizo (Webb) sits at the 83rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 915 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts El Cenizo (Webb) at the 83rd percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in El Cenizo (Webb) (95.1% of 915 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Where El Cenizo (Webb) ranks
There's little gap between El Cenizo (Webb)'s 83rd national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Cenizo (Webb) ranks 5,430 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,601 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 565 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
El Cenizo (Webb) and the insurance market
At the 83rd percentile nationally, El Cenizo (Webb) carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in El Cenizo (Webb)
El Cenizo (Webb)'s 95.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind El Cenizo (Webb)'s 5,430-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond El Cenizo (Webb), see the exposure-zones guide.