Lake Jackson, TX
Lake Jackson wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Jackson at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 10,073 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake Jackson's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Where Lake Jackson's buildings actually sit
Lake Jackson rates 50.3% Minimal exposure against just 17.9% Direct and 31.8% Indirect — of 10,073 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,073 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lake Jackson compares
Lake Jackson's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Jackson ranks 4,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,594 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 480 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Jackson
Lake Jackson's very high rating (85th 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
Even with 50.3% of Lake Jackson outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lake Jackson's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Jackson's 4,772-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Jackson's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.