Pleak, TX
Pleak wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleak at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 755 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pleak at the 52nd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Pleak's buildings actually sit
Of Pleak's 755 counted buildings, 73.8% carry Direct exposure and only 26.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pleak compares
Inside Texas, Pleak sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 50th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleak ranks 15,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,072 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,683 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pleak and the insurance market
At the 50th national percentile, Pleak rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pleak's 73.8% 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.
Where Pleak's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 755 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleak. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleak's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.