Midway South, TX
Midway South wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Midway South lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 780 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Midway South's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Midway South rates 67.7% Minimal exposure against just 32.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 780 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Midway South ranks
Midway South's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 18th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midway South ranks 11,708 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,820 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,468 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Midway South
Midway South's 63rd-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 Midway South
Midway South's 67.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Midway South's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Midway South, see the exposure-zones guide.