Hebbronville, TX
Hebbronville wildfire risk explained
Hebbronville sits at the 86th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,606 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hebbronville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Where Hebbronville's buildings actually sit
78.8% of Hebbronville's 2,606 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Hebbronville ranks
Hebbronville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hebbronville ranks 4,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,086 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 453 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Hebbronville's 86th-percentile, very 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
Because 78.8% of Hebbronville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hebbronville's 4,520-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hebbronville, see the exposure-zones guide.