Leander, TX
Leander, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Leander sits at the 79th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 22,177 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leander at the 77th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Leander's buildings actually sit
Leander rates 37.7% Minimal exposure against just 27.3% Direct and 35% Indirect — of 22,177 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 22,177 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Leander compares
Inside Texas, Leander sits at just the 59th percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Leander ranks 6,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 614 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 745 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Leander
At the 79th percentile nationally, Leander carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 37.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Leander gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Leander's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leander's 6,666-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Leander's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.