Fronton Ranchettes, TX
Fronton Ranchettes, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fronton Ranchettes at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 67 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fronton Ranchettes's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 92nd percentile nationally.
Fronton Ranchettes's building exposure, zone by zone
67 buildings are counted in Fronton Ranchettes, and 73.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 26.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Fronton Ranchettes ranks
Fronton Ranchettes scores 92nd nationally and 89th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fronton Ranchettes ranks 2,535 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 195 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Fronton Ranchettes and the insurance market
Fronton Ranchettes's 92nd-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 Fronton Ranchettes
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fronton Ranchettes (73.1% 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
Fronton Ranchettes's 92nd-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 Fronton Ranchettes, see the exposure-zones guide.