Mission Bend, TX
Mission Bend, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mission Bend's 11,928 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mission Bend at the 52nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.2% of Mission Bend's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.8% Direct and 6.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 11,928 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mission Bend against the rest of the country
Mission Bend's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mission Bend ranks 15,647 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,676 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Mission Bend and the insurance market
Mission Bend's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mission Bend
With 93.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mission Bend gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Mission Bend's 50th-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 Mission Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.