Quanah, TX
How exposed is Quanah to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Quanah at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,953 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Quanah at the 78th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 81.6% of Quanah's 1,953 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.2% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Quanah ranks
Quanah's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quanah ranks 5,718 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,609 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 619 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quanah
Quanah's very high rating (82nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Quanah's 81.6% 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 Quanah's 5,718-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Quanah, see the exposure-zones guide.