Highland Village, TX
Highland Village wildfire risk explained
Highland Village sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,736 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Highland Village at the 64th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Highland Village's buildings actually sit
47.1% of Highland Village's 5,736 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 11.7% Direct and 41.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 5,736 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Highland Village ranks
Inside Texas, Highland Village sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 64th 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, Highland Village ranks 11,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,445 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Highland Village and the insurance market
Highland Village's high rating (64th 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 Highland Village
Because 47.1% of Highland Village'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
Highland Village's 64th-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 Highland Village, see the exposure-zones guide.