Sachse, TX
Sachse, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sachse at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,228 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sachse's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Where Sachse's buildings actually sit
Most of Sachse's buildings (92.2% of 9,228) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 9,228 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Sachse against the rest of the country
Sachse's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sachse ranks 12,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,787 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,539 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sachse
Sachse's 60th-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
With 92.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sachse gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Sachse's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sachse, see the exposure-zones guide.