Forest Heights, TX
Forest Heights wildfire risk explained
Forest Heights's 775 buildings earn a 84th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Forest Heights at the 87th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Where Forest Heights's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 66.3% of Forest Heights's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 33.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 514 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Forest Heights compares
Forest Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (72nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Heights ranks 5,054 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,873 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 514 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Forest Heights and the insurance market
Forest Heights's very high rating (84th 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
With 66.3% of Forest Heights 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Heights's 5,054-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.