Lakeside City, TX
Lakeside City, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lakeside City sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 607 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lakeside City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Where Lakeside City's buildings actually sit
65.1% of Lakeside City's 607 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.6% Direct and 4.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Lakeside City against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lakeside City's 95th national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeside City ranks 1,715 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 103 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Lakeside City and the insurance market
Lakeside City's 95th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lakeside City (65.1% 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
Lakeside City's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lakeside City, see the exposure-zones guide.