Levelland, TX
How exposed is Levelland to wildfire?
USFS scores Levelland at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,664 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Levelland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Levelland's buildings (95.5% of 6,664) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,664 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Levelland against the rest of the country
Levelland ranks lower within Texas (38th percentile statewide) than its 73rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Levelland ranks 8,649 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,109 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Levelland
Levelland'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Levelland's 95.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Levelland's 8,649-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Levelland, see the exposure-zones guide.