Lake View, TX
Lake View, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lake View at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 227 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Where Lake View's buildings actually sit
Most of Lake View's buildings (61.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Lake View ranks
Inside Texas, Lake View sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Lake View ranks 5,717 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 618 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Lake View and the insurance market
Lake View's 82nd-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Lake View
Because 61.2% of Lake View's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Lake View's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake View's 5,717-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake View's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.