Fredericksburg, TX
How exposed is Fredericksburg to wildfire?
Fredericksburg's 7,854 buildings earn a 81st-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 Fredericksburg at the 81st percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Fredericksburg's building exposure, zone by zone
7,854 buildings are counted in Fredericksburg, and 64.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 35.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal. At 7,854 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Fredericksburg against the rest of the country
Fredericksburg ranks lower within Texas (64th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fredericksburg ranks 5,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,159 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 642 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fredericksburg
At the 81st percentile nationally, Fredericksburg carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 64.6% of Fredericksburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fredericksburg's 81st-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 Fredericksburg, see the exposure-zones guide.