La Feria North, TX
La Feria North, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores La Feria North at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 124 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Feria North at the 66th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
La Feria North's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 85.5% of La Feria North's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 14.5% Minimal share — a profile where 106 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where La Feria North ranks
Inside Texas, La Feria North sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 65th 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, La Feria North ranks 10,951 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,005 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,409 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
La Feria North and the insurance market
La Feria North's 65th-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 85.5% of La Feria North in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where La Feria North's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 124 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Feria North. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Feria North's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.