Longview, TX
Longview wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Longview at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 33,711 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Longview at the 62nd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Longview's buildings actually sit
Only 7.8% of Longview's 33,711 buildings carry Direct exposure and 34.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 58% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 33,711 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Longview against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Longview sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Longview ranks 11,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 323 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,487 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Longview and the insurance market
Longview's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 58% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Longview gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Longview's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 33,711 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Longview. The exposure-zones guide covers what Longview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.