Heath, TX
How exposed is Heath to wildfire?
Heath's 4,173 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Heath at the 69th percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
Where Heath's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 43.4% of Heath's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 33.1% Direct and 23.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Heath ranks
Inside Texas, Heath sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 71st 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, Heath ranks 9,311 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,216 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Heath
Heath's high rating (71st 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.
Hardening a home in Heath
With 43.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Heath 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,173 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Heath. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Heath, see the exposure-zones guide.