Haskell, TX
Haskell, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Haskell lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,031 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 Haskell at the 67th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Haskell's buildings (73.5% of 2,031) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Haskell against the rest of the country
Haskell ranks lower within Texas (32nd percentile statewide) than its 70th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haskell ranks 9,338 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,219 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Haskell and the insurance market
Haskell's 70th-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
With 73.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Haskell gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Haskell's 9,338-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Haskell, see the exposure-zones guide.