El Mesquite, TX
El Mesquite, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores El Mesquite at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 12 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks El Mesquite at the 92nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where El Mesquite's buildings actually sit
Of El Mesquite's 12 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 12 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
El Mesquite against the rest of the country
There's little gap between El Mesquite's 93rd national percentile and its 90th 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 Mesquite ranks 2,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 177 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Mesquite
At the 93rd percentile nationally, El Mesquite 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 Mesquite
With 100% of El Mesquite in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
El Mesquite's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. At 12 buildings, El Mesquite is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.