Los Alvarez, TX
Los Alvarez, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Los Alvarez's 102 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Los Alvarez at the 85th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Los Alvarez (74.5% of 102 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 25.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Los Alvarez compares
There's little gap between Los Alvarez's 85th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Alvarez ranks 4,833 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 491 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Los Alvarez
At the 85th percentile nationally, Los Alvarez 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Los Alvarez (74.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Los Alvarez's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Los Alvarez, see the exposure-zones guide.