Falfurrias, TX
Falfurrias wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Falfurrias at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,453 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Falfurrias at the 90th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Falfurrias's buildings (79.4%) 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.
How Falfurrias compares
Falfurrias's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Falfurrias ranks 3,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,388 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 345 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Falfurrias and the insurance market
Falfurrias's very high rating (88th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Falfurrias (79.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,453 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Falfurrias. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Falfurrias, see the exposure-zones guide.