Rancho Alegre, TX
Rancho Alegre wildfire risk explained
Rancho Alegre's 757 buildings earn a 68th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rancho Alegre at the 68th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Rancho Alegre rates 52.6% Minimal exposure against just 32.8% Direct and 14.7% Indirect — of 757 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Rancho Alegre compares
Rancho Alegre ranks lower within Texas (26th percentile statewide) than its 68th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rancho Alegre ranks 10,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,048 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,332 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Rancho Alegre and the insurance market
Rancho Alegre's 68th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 52.6% of Rancho Alegre outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rancho Alegre's 10,162-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rancho Alegre, see the exposure-zones guide.