Los Ebanos (Starr), TX
How exposed is Los Ebanos (Starr) to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Los Ebanos (Starr) lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 96 buildings, not the land around them. (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 Ebanos (Starr) at the 92nd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Where Los Ebanos (Starr)'s buildings actually sit
USFS puts 100% of Los Ebanos (Starr)'s 96 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 0% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Los Ebanos (Starr) ranks
Los Ebanos (Starr)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (88th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Ebanos (Starr) ranks 2,690 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,247 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 217 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Los Ebanos (Starr)
Los Ebanos (Starr)'s very high rating (92nd 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Los Ebanos (Starr) (100% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Los Ebanos (Starr)'s 2,690-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Los Ebanos (Starr), see the exposure-zones guide.