La Feria, TX
La Feria wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Feria lands at the 56th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,156 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Feria at the 57th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 16.1% of La Feria's 3,156 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How La Feria compares
Inside Texas, La Feria sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 56th 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 ranks 13,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,603 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Feria
At the 56th national percentile, La Feria rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in La Feria
La Feria's 83.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
La Feria's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Feria, see the exposure-zones guide.