Laughlin AFB, TX
Laughlin AFB, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Laughlin AFB at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 769 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Laughlin AFB at the 72nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Laughlin AFB's buildings actually sit
769 buildings are counted in Laughlin AFB, and 83.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.2% in Direct exposure or the 7.4% rated Minimal.
Laughlin AFB against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Laughlin AFB sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Laughlin AFB ranks 8,460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,079 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
Laughlin AFB's 73rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 83.4% of Laughlin AFB'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 769 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Laughlin AFB. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Laughlin AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.