Port O'Connor, TX
How exposed is Port O'Connor to wildfire?
USFS scores Port O'Connor at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,790 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 O'Connor at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Port O'Connor's buildings (87%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Port O'Connor compares
Port O'Connor's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (74th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port O'Connor ranks 4,649 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 469 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port O'Connor
Port O'Connor's 85th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 87% of Port O'Connor'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.
Where Port O'Connor's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port O'Connor's 4,649-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port O'Connor's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.