Prairie View, TX
How exposed is Prairie View to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Prairie View lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,381 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Prairie View at the 80th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Prairie View's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Prairie View's 1,381 counted buildings, 67.4% carry Direct exposure and only 2.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Prairie View ranks
Inside Texas, Prairie View sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Prairie View ranks 7,103 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,714 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 828 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
Prairie View's high rating (78th 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 Prairie View
Because Direct exposure dominates in Prairie View (67.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prairie View's 7,103-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Prairie View, see the exposure-zones guide.