Los Fresnos (Webb), TX
Los Fresnos (Webb) wildfire risk explained
Los Fresnos (Webb) sits at the 73rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 76 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Fresnos (Webb) at the 68th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.1% of Los Fresnos (Webb)'s buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 73 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Los Fresnos (Webb) against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Los Fresnos (Webb) sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Los Fresnos (Webb) ranks 8,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,064 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,104 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 (Webb)
Los Fresnos (Webb)'s 73rd-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Los Fresnos (Webb)
Los Fresnos (Webb)'s 96.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Los Fresnos (Webb)'s figures come from
Los Fresnos (Webb)'s 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Los Fresnos (Webb)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.