Highland Park, TX
Highland Park, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Highland Park at the 43rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Highland Park at the 46th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
80.7% of Highland Park's 4,161 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Highland Park compares
Highland Park's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highland Park ranks 17,945 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,092 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,721 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
At the 43rd national percentile, Highland Park rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Highland Park
With 80.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Highland Park 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
Highland Park's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Highland Park, see the exposure-zones guide.