La Porte, TX
La Porte wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Porte lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 15,405 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Porte at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where La Porte's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 95.1% of La Porte's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 15,405 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where La Porte ranks
La Porte's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Porte ranks 10,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,397 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
La Porte and the insurance market
La Porte's high rating (66th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
La Porte's 95.1% 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.
Where La Porte's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Porte's 10,827-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Porte's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.