Freeport, TX
Freeport, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Freeport sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,579 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Freeport at the 94th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Freeport's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93.1% of Freeport's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.1% Direct and 1.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Freeport compares
Freeport's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Freeport ranks 1,995 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 128 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 94th percentile nationally, Freeport 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
Freeport's 93.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Freeport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Freeport's 1,995-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Freeport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.