Pecan Plantation, TX
Pecan Plantation wildfire risk explained
Pecan Plantation sits at the 93rd 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 3,068 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 Pecan Plantation at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Pecan Plantation's building exposure, zone by zone
80.4% of Pecan Plantation's 3,068 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,466 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 19.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Pecan Plantation against the rest of the country
Pecan Plantation's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (92nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pecan Plantation ranks 2,119 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 147 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pecan Plantation
Pecan Plantation's very high rating (93rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pecan Plantation's 80.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pecan Plantation's 2,119-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pecan Plantation, see the exposure-zones guide.