WildfireRiskFinder

Littlefield, TX

Littlefield, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Very High
87thpercentile nationally

Littlefield's 3,645 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Littlefield at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.

Littlefield's building exposure, zone by zone

3,645Total buildings
9%Direct exposure
52.8%Indirect exposure
38.2%Minimal exposure

USFS puts 52.8% of Littlefield's 3,645 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9% Direct and 38.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.

How Littlefield compares

There's little gap between Littlefield's 87th national percentile and its 77th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Littlefield ranks 4,265 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,595 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 418 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Littlefield

At the 87th percentile nationally, Littlefield carries the very 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.

Hardening a home in Littlefield

Because 52.8% of Littlefield'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 Littlefield's figures come from

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,645 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Littlefield. The exposure-zones guide covers what Littlefield's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.