Ranger, TX
Ranger wildfire risk explained
Ranger's 1,744 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ranger at the 90th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ranger's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 51.3% of Ranger's 1,744 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 48.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Ranger compares
Ranger scores 91st nationally and 85th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ranger ranks 2,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,251 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 264 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ranger
Ranger's very high rating (91st 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
Ranger's 51.3% 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.
Where Ranger's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ranger's 2,939-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ranger's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.