Miles, TX
How exposed is Miles to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Miles at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 685 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Miles at the 60th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Miles's buildings actually sit
63.9% of Miles's 685 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 34.9% Direct and 1.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Miles compares
Inside Texas, Miles sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Miles ranks 11,645 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,464 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Miles
Miles's high rating (63rd 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 Miles
Miles's 63.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 685 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Miles. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Miles, see the exposure-zones guide.