Port Neches, TX
How exposed is Port Neches to wildfire?
USFS scores Port Neches at the 92nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 7,044 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Port Neches's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Port Neches rates 96.7% Minimal exposure against just 3.2% Direct and 0.1% Indirect — of 7,044 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,044 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Port Neches ranks
Port Neches scores 92nd nationally and 90th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Neches ranks 2,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 188 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 Neches's 92nd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Port Neches
With 96.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Port Neches 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
Port Neches's 92nd-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 Port Neches, see the exposure-zones guide.