Kingsbury, TX
Kingsbury wildfire risk explained
Kingsbury sits at the 77th 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 103 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 Kingsbury at the 77th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Kingsbury: 95.2% of its 103 buildings, versus 4.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Kingsbury compares
Kingsbury's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsbury ranks 7,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,925 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 877 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Kingsbury and the insurance market
Kingsbury's 77th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kingsbury (95.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Kingsbury's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 103 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kingsbury. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kingsbury's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.