Road Runner, TX
Road Runner, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Road Runner at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 349 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Road Runner at the 87th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Road Runner's buildings actually sit
Of Road Runner's 349 counted buildings, 83.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Road Runner compares
Road Runner scores 86th nationally and 75th 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, Road Runner ranks 4,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 449 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Road Runner and the insurance market
Road Runner's 86th-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Road Runner's 83.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Road Runner's 4,487-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Road Runner, see the exposure-zones guide.