Los Angeles, TX
Los Angeles, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Los Angeles at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 50 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 Los Angeles at the 44th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Los Angeles's buildings actually sit
50 buildings are counted in Los Angeles, and 72% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 28% rated Minimal.
Los Angeles against the rest of the country
Los Angeles's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Angeles ranks 17,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,944 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,720 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Los Angeles's elevated wildfire rating (44th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Los Angeles
With 72% of Los Angeles in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Los Angeles's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Los Angeles, see the exposure-zones guide.