El Rancho Vela, TX
El Rancho Vela, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
El Rancho Vela's 117 buildings earn a 94th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, El Rancho Vela's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
El Rancho Vela's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of El Rancho Vela's buildings (59%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where El Rancho Vela ranks
El Rancho Vela's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Rancho Vela ranks 1,870 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 115 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Rancho Vela
El Rancho Vela's very high rating (94th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
El Rancho Vela's 59% 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 Rancho Vela's 1,870-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 Rancho Vela, see the exposure-zones guide.