Fort Stockton, TX
Fort Stockton, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fort Stockton at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,411 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 Stockton at the 51st percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Fort Stockton's building exposure, zone by zone
4,411 buildings are counted in Fort Stockton, and 85.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.5% in Direct exposure or the 4.8% rated Minimal.
Fort Stockton against the rest of the country
Fort Stockton's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Stockton ranks 15,142 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,871 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,669 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton's elevated rating (52nd 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
Fort Stockton's 85.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,411 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fort Stockton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Stockton, see the exposure-zones guide.