New Home, TX
New Home wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Home lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 227 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Home at the 50th national percentile — 4 points below 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 70.5% of New Home's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How New Home compares
New Home's 54th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th 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, New Home ranks 14,417 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,624 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Home
At the 54th national percentile, New Home rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in New Home
New Home's 70.5% 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.
Where New Home's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Home's 14,417-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Home's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.