Fowlerton, TX
How exposed is Fowlerton to wildfire?
Fowlerton's 110 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fowlerton at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fowlerton's buildings (61.8%) 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.
Where Fowlerton ranks
Fowlerton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fowlerton ranks 4,263 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,640 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 416 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Fowlerton and the insurance market
Fowlerton's very high rating (87th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fowlerton (61.8% 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
Fowlerton's 87th-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 Fowlerton, see the exposure-zones guide.