Pharr, TX
Pharr wildfire risk explained
Pharr's 25,351 buildings earn a 61st-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 Pharr at the 61st percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Pharr's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.7% of Pharr's 25,351 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 25,351 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pharr ranks
Pharr's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pharr ranks 12,304 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,519 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pharr
Pharr's high rating (61st 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 Pharr
With 97.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pharr 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 25,351 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pharr. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pharr, see the exposure-zones guide.