New Summerfield, TX
New Summerfield wildfire risk explained
New Summerfield's 718 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Summerfield at the 79th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where New Summerfield's buildings actually sit
718 buildings are counted in New Summerfield, and 65.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
New Summerfield against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, New Summerfield sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, New Summerfield ranks 7,101 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,489 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 826 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
New Summerfield and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, New Summerfield carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 65.6% of New Summerfield in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 718 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Summerfield. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Summerfield, see the exposure-zones guide.