Fort Davis, TX
Fort Davis, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fort Davis at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,204 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 Fort Davis at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 56.1% of Fort Davis's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 43.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 675 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Fort Davis against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fort Davis's 98th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Davis ranks 798 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,626 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 35 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Davis
Fort Davis's 98th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Fort Davis's 56.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Davis's 798-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fort Davis, see the exposure-zones guide.