Gun Barrel City, TX
Gun Barrel City wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Gun Barrel City at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,812 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gun Barrel City at the 75th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
53.3% of Gun Barrel City's 3,812 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.1% Direct and 26.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Gun Barrel City compares
Inside Texas, Gun Barrel City sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Gun Barrel City ranks 7,987 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,413 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 976 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Gun Barrel City and the insurance market
At the 75th percentile nationally, Gun Barrel City carries the 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.
Hardening a home in Gun Barrel City
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Gun Barrel City (53.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,812 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gun Barrel City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gun Barrel City, see the exposure-zones guide.