Lamesa, TX
How exposed is Lamesa to wildfire?
USFS scores Lamesa at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 5,377 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lamesa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.6% of Lamesa's 5,377 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,377 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lamesa compares
Inside Texas, Lamesa sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Lamesa ranks 16,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,706 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Lamesa's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lamesa
With 93.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lamesa gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lamesa's 16,942-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lamesa, see the exposure-zones guide.