Port Arthur, TX
Port Arthur, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Port Arthur at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 27,686 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Arthur at the 98th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Port Arthur's buildings actually sit
Most of Port Arthur's buildings (70.8% of 27,686) 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. At 27,686 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Port Arthur against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Port Arthur's 99th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Arthur ranks 297 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 439 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 12 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Arthur
Port Arthur's very high rating (99th 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 Arthur
With 70.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Port Arthur gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Port Arthur's figures come from
Port Arthur's 99th-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 Arthur's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.