Pflugerville, TX
How exposed is Pflugerville to wildfire?
Pflugerville sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 21,010 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pflugerville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
Where Pflugerville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 85.7% of Pflugerville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.6% Direct and 5.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 21,010 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pflugerville compares
Pflugerville's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 21st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pflugerville ranks 10,980 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 664 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,412 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pflugerville and the insurance market
Pflugerville's high rating (65th 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
With 85.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pflugerville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pflugerville's 10,980-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pflugerville, see the exposure-zones guide.