Ranchitos East, TX
How exposed is Ranchitos East to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ranchitos East lands at the 76th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 80 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ranchitos East's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
88.8% of Ranchitos East's 80 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 11.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Ranchitos East ranks
Ranchitos East's 76th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ranchitos East ranks 7,544 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,900 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 909 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ranchitos East
Ranchitos East's 76th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Ranchitos East
Ranchitos East's 88.8% 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
Ranchitos East's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ranchitos East, see the exposure-zones guide.