Farwell, TX
Farwell, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Farwell at the 55th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 848 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Farwell at the 54th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Farwell rates 93.3% Minimal exposure against just 6.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 848 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Farwell ranks
Farwell's 55th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farwell ranks 14,074 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,184 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,614 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Farwell's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Farwell
Farwell's 93.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Farwell's 14,074-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Farwell, see the exposure-zones guide.