Sabinal, TX
Sabinal, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sabinal sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,071 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sabinal at the 60th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Sabinal's buildings actually sit
76.5% of Sabinal's 1,071 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 23.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Sabinal compares
Sabinal ranks lower within Texas (17th percentile statewide) than its 62nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sabinal ranks 11,893 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,458 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,483 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Sabinal and the insurance market
Sabinal's 62nd-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 Sabinal
Because 76.5% of Sabinal'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 Sabinal's 11,893-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sabinal, see the exposure-zones guide.