Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Prairie wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grand Prairie lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 56,474 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 Grand Prairie at the 67th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Grand Prairie's building exposure, zone by zone
90.2% of Grand Prairie's 56,474 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 9.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 56,474 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Grand Prairie ranks
Inside Texas, Grand Prairie sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Grand Prairie ranks 10,349 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 149 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,349 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Grand Prairie and the insurance market
Grand Prairie's 67th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Grand Prairie's 90.2% 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 Grand Prairie's figures come from
Grand Prairie's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand Prairie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.