Hedley, TX
How exposed is Hedley to wildfire?
USFS scores Hedley at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 307 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hedley at the 94th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hedley's buildings actually sit
307 buildings are counted in Hedley, and 74.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Hedley ranks
Hedley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hedley ranks 2,027 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 133 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Hedley and the insurance market
Hedley's very high rating (94th 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 74.6% of Hedley'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
Hedley's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hedley, see the exposure-zones guide.