Fort Clark Springs, TX
How exposed is Fort Clark Springs to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fort Clark Springs lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 789 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Clark Springs at the 63rd national percentile — 2 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
83.5% of Fort Clark Springs's 789 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 16.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Fort Clark Springs ranks
Inside Texas, Fort Clark Springs sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 64th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Clark Springs ranks 11,259 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,433 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Clark Springs
Fort Clark Springs's 64th-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
Fort Clark Springs's 83.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fort Clark Springs's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Clark Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.