Hillside Acres, TX
Hillside Acres, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hillside Acres at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 25 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hillside Acres at the 66th percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
Hillside Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
25 buildings are counted in Hillside Acres, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Hillside Acres against the rest of the country
Hillside Acres's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 37 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillside Acres ranks 9,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,420 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,186 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Hillside Acres and the insurance market
Hillside Acres's 71st-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hillside Acres (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Hillside Acres's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 25 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hillside Acres. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hillside Acres's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.