Quintana, TX
How exposed is Quintana to wildfire?
USFS scores Quintana at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 95 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 Quintana at the 85th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Quintana's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Quintana: 54.7% of its 95 buildings, versus 11.6% Indirect and 33.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Quintana ranks
There's little gap between Quintana's 89th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quintana ranks 3,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 339 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
At the 89th percentile nationally, Quintana carries the very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Quintana's 54.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Quintana's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 95 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quintana. The exposure-zones guide covers what Quintana's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.