La Grulla, TX
La Grulla wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Grulla lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 715 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Grulla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Where La Grulla's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 93.7% of La Grulla's 715 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 6.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
La Grulla against the rest of the country
There's little gap between La Grulla's 86th national percentile and its 76th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Grulla ranks 4,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 429 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
La Grulla and the insurance market
La Grulla's very high rating (86th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in La Grulla (93.7% 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 La Grulla's 4,357-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Grulla, see the exposure-zones guide.