Ramirez-Perez, TX
How exposed is Ramirez-Perez to wildfire?
USFS scores Ramirez-Perez at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 24 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ramirez-Perez's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ramirez-Perez's buildings (83.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. This is a small settlement by building count — 24 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Ramirez-Perez compares
Ramirez-Perez's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ramirez-Perez ranks 2,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,432 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 270 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Ramirez-Perez and the insurance market
At the 91st percentile nationally, Ramirez-Perez 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
Because 83.3% of Ramirez-Perez's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ramirez-Perez's 2,972-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. At 24 buildings, Ramirez-Perez is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.