Porter Heights, TX
How exposed is Porter Heights to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Porter Heights lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 893 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Porter Heights at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Porter Heights's buildings actually sit
Of Porter Heights's 893 counted buildings, 83.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Porter Heights against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Porter Heights sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 66th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Porter Heights ranks 10,730 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,787 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,383 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Porter Heights and the insurance market
At the 66th percentile nationally, Porter Heights carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Porter Heights
With 83.4% of Porter Heights in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Porter Heights's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Porter Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.