Port Isabel, TX
Port Isabel wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Isabel lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,330 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Isabel at the 78th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Isabel's building exposure, zone by zone
2,330 buildings are counted in Port Isabel, and 57.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 2.4% in Direct exposure or the 40.1% rated Minimal.
Where Port Isabel ranks
There's little gap between Port Isabel's 83rd national percentile and its 70th 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 Isabel ranks 5,310 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,645 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 548 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Isabel
Port Isabel's very high rating (83rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.5% of Port Isabel's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Port Isabel's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Isabel, see the exposure-zones guide.