La Ward, TX
How exposed is La Ward to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Ward lands at the 71st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 152 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 Ward at the 74th percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
La Ward's building exposure, zone by zone
Of La Ward's 152 counted buildings, 81.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
La Ward against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, La Ward sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 71st 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 Ward ranks 9,155 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,828 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,192 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Ward
La Ward's 71st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 81.6% of La Ward 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 Ward's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Ward's 9,155-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Ward's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.