Kingsville, TX
Kingsville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kingsville lands at the 75th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,672 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Where Kingsville's buildings actually sit
Most of Kingsville's buildings (57.9%) 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. At 10,672 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kingsville compares
Kingsville ranks lower within Texas (47th percentile statewide) than its 75th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsville ranks 7,862 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 961 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Kingsville and the insurance market
Kingsville's 75th-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kingsville (57.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kingsville's 7,862-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingsville, see the exposure-zones guide.