Los Fresnos (Cameron), TX
Los Fresnos (Cameron), TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Los Fresnos (Cameron) lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,751 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Los Fresnos (Cameron)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
Where Los Fresnos (Cameron)'s buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Los Fresnos (Cameron) (59.1% of 2,751 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Los Fresnos (Cameron) ranks
Los Fresnos (Cameron) scores 91st nationally and 87th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Fresnos (Cameron) ranks 2,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,849 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 230 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Los Fresnos (Cameron)
Los Fresnos (Cameron)'s 91st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Los Fresnos (Cameron)'s 59.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Los Fresnos (Cameron)'s 2,752-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 Fresnos (Cameron), see the exposure-zones guide.