Hughes Springs, TX
How exposed is Hughes Springs to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hughes Springs lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,027 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hughes Springs at the 71st percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.2% of Hughes Springs's 1,027 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 22.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Hughes Springs compares
Hughes Springs's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th 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, Hughes Springs ranks 9,563 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,251 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 70th percentile nationally, Hughes Springs carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Hughes Springs
Because 77.2% of Hughes Springs'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.
Where Hughes Springs's figures come from
Hughes Springs's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hughes Springs's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.