Grand Saline, TX
How exposed is Grand Saline to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grand Saline at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,448 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand Saline at the 74th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grand Saline's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Grand Saline's buildings (83.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Grand Saline ranks
Grand Saline's 73rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 38th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Saline ranks 8,676 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,117 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Grand Saline and the insurance market
Grand Saline's high rating (73rd 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
Because 83.9% of Grand Saline'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,448 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grand Saline. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grand Saline, see the exposure-zones guide.