Hewitt, TX
Hewitt, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hewitt lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 5,568 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hewitt at the 66th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hewitt's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 53.7% of Hewitt's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.3% Direct and 24.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,568 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hewitt against the rest of the country
Hewitt ranks lower within Texas (28th percentile statewide) than its 69th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hewitt ranks 9,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,286 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Hewitt and the insurance market
Hewitt's high rating (69th 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
Hewitt's 53.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hewitt's 9,814-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hewitt, see the exposure-zones guide.