El Socio, TX
El Socio, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores El Socio at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 36 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 Socio at the 96th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where El Socio's buildings actually sit
61.1% of El Socio's 36 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 22 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
El Socio against the rest of the country
El Socio's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Socio ranks 1,556 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,261 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 87 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
El Socio and the insurance market
El Socio's 95th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in El Socio
With 61.1% of El Socio 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 36 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for El Socio. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond El Socio, see the exposure-zones guide.