Ingleside, TX
Ingleside wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ingleside at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,133 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 Ingleside at the 79th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Ingleside's buildings actually sit
Most of Ingleside's buildings (66.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Ingleside against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Ingleside sits at just the 61st percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Ingleside ranks 6,349 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,116 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 705 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ingleside
Ingleside's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Ingleside
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ingleside (66.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Ingleside's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ingleside's 6,349-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ingleside's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.