Palmview South, TX
Palmview South, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Palmview South at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 697 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Palmview South at the 71st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Palmview South's buildings actually sit
Palmview South rates 76.2% Minimal exposure against just 23.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 697 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Palmview South ranks
Palmview South's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palmview South ranks 9,247 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,700 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,204 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Palmview South and the insurance market
Palmview South's high rating (71st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Palmview South's 76.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 697 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Palmview South. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Palmview South, see the exposure-zones guide.