Port Aransas, TX
How exposed is Port Aransas to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Port Aransas at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 4,027 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Aransas at the 80th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Port Aransas's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60.2% of Port Aransas's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.1% Direct and 34.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Port Aransas compares
Port Aransas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (72nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Aransas ranks 4,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 505 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Port Aransas's very high rating (84th 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 Port Aransas
Port Aransas's 60.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Port Aransas's figures come from
Port Aransas's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Aransas's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.