Piney Point Village, TX
How exposed is Piney Point Village to wildfire?
Piney Point Village sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,417 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Piney Point Village at the 39th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Piney Point Village's buildings (89.6% of 1,417) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Piney Point Village against the rest of the country
Piney Point Village ranks lower within Texas (3rd percentile statewide) than its 36th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piney Point Village ranks 20,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,556 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,739 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Piney Point Village and the insurance market
Piney Point Village's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Piney Point Village 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
Piney Point Village's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Piney Point Village, see the exposure-zones guide.