Lantana, TX
How exposed is Lantana to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lantana lands at the 75th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,527 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 Lantana at the 75th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Lantana's building exposure, zone by zone
66.8% of Lantana's 3,527 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.8% Direct and 19.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Lantana ranks
Inside Texas, Lantana sits at just the 47th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Lantana ranks 7,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 946 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Lantana and the insurance market
Lantana's 75th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 66.8% of Lantana'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 Lantana's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,527 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lantana. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lantana's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.