Muleshoe, TX
Muleshoe, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Muleshoe at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,418 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Muleshoe at the 96th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
2,418 buildings are counted in Muleshoe, and 93.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 6.6% in Direct exposure or the 0.3% rated Minimal.
Muleshoe against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Muleshoe's 95th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Muleshoe ranks 1,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 94 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Muleshoe
Muleshoe's 95th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 93.1% of Muleshoe'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
Muleshoe's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Muleshoe, see the exposure-zones guide.