Nederland, TX
Nederland, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nederland's 8,872 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nederland at the 82nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nederland's buildings actually sit
Most of Nederland's buildings (81% of 8,872) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 8,872 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Nederland compares
There's little gap between Nederland's 83rd national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nederland ranks 5,434 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,876 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 569 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nederland
Nederland's very high rating (83rd 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 Nederland
Even with 81% of Nederland outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,872 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nederland. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Nederland, see the exposure-zones guide.