Pyote, TX
Pyote, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pyote sits at the 74th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 205 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pyote at the 71st percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Pyote's building exposure, zone by zone
56.6% of Pyote's 205 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Pyote ranks
Inside Texas, Pyote sits at just the 44th percentile even though it scores 74th 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, Pyote ranks 8,081 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 999 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pyote and the insurance market
Pyote's high rating (74th 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
Pyote's 56.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pyote's 8,081-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pyote, see the exposure-zones guide.