Fort Bliss, TX
How exposed is Fort Bliss to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fort Bliss lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,668 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Bliss at the 30th national percentile — 5 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
Fort Bliss rates 57% Minimal exposure against just 13.6% Direct and 29.4% Indirect — of 3,668 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Fort Bliss against the rest of the country
Fort Bliss ranks lower within Texas (2nd percentile statewide) than its 26th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Bliss ranks 23,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,762 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Fort Bliss and the insurance market
Fort Bliss's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fort Bliss gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Bliss's 23,463-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fort Bliss, see the exposure-zones guide.