Geronimo, TX
Geronimo wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Geronimo lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 757 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Geronimo at the 64th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where Geronimo's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83% of Geronimo's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 7.1% Indirect share and far above its 9.9% Minimal share — a profile where 628 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Geronimo against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Geronimo sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 66th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Geronimo ranks 10,854 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,047 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,398 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Geronimo and the insurance market
Geronimo's high rating (66th 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
Geronimo's 83% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Geronimo's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Geronimo, see the exposure-zones guide.