Forney, TX
How exposed is Forney to wildfire?
Forney's 8,438 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forney at the 69th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 74.3% of Forney's 8,438 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 13% Direct and 12.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 8,438 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Forney ranks
Forney's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forney ranks 9,755 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,973 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,277 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forney
Forney's 69th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.3% of Forney's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forney's 9,755-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Forney, see the exposure-zones guide.