Knollwood, TX
Knollwood, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Knollwood lands at the 72nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 220 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Knollwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
73.6% of Knollwood's 220 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 26.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Knollwood against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Knollwood sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 72nd 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, Knollwood ranks 8,991 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,170 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Knollwood
Knollwood's 72nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Knollwood's 73.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Knollwood's 8,991-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Knollwood, see the exposure-zones guide.