Palisades, TX
Palisades wildfire risk explained
Palisades sits at the 97th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 226 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Palisades at the 98th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Palisades's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 66.4% of Palisades's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 33.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 150 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Palisades ranks
Palisades's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palisades ranks 894 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 45 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Palisades
Palisades's very high rating (97th 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 Palisades
With 66.4% of Palisades 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Palisades's 894-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Palisades, see the exposure-zones guide.