La Escondida, TX
How exposed is La Escondida to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Escondida at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 80 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Escondida at the 80th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where La Escondida's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 56.3% of La Escondida's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 43.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 45 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How La Escondida compares
La Escondida's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 61st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Escondida ranks 6,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,899 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 700 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
La Escondida'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.
What would actually reduce this score
La Escondida's 56.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where La Escondida's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Escondida's 6,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Escondida's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.