Fort Hood, TX
How exposed is Fort Hood to wildfire?
USFS scores Fort Hood at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 6,106 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Hood at the 80th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Fort Hood's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Fort Hood's buildings (44.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 6,106 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Fort Hood against the rest of the country
Fort Hood's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Hood ranks 5,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,836 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 621 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Fort Hood and the insurance market
Fort Hood's 82nd-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.
Hardening a home in Fort Hood
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fort Hood (44.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Hood's 5,748-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Hood, see the exposure-zones guide.