Mesquite (Starr), TX
How exposed is Mesquite (Starr) to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mesquite (Starr) lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 144 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mesquite (Starr) at the 79th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mesquite (Starr)'s buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Mesquite (Starr) (100% of 144 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 0% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Mesquite (Starr) ranks
Inside Texas, Mesquite (Starr) sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Mesquite (Starr) ranks 6,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 681 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Mesquite (Starr) and the insurance market
Mesquite (Starr)'s very high rating (80th 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.
Hardening a home in Mesquite (Starr)
Because 100% of Mesquite (Starr)'s buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mesquite (Starr)'s 6,191-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mesquite (Starr), see the exposure-zones guide.