Hondo, TX
Hondo, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hondo at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,325 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 Hondo at the 63rd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hondo's buildings (66.4% of 3,325) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Hondo compares
Hondo's 64th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hondo ranks 11,234 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,010 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,431 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Hondo and the insurance market
Hondo'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 Hondo
Hondo's 66.4% 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 Hondo's 11,234-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hondo, see the exposure-zones guide.