Salida del Sol Estates, TX
How exposed is Salida del Sol Estates to wildfire?
USFS scores Salida del Sol Estates at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,957 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salida del Sol Estates at the 89th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
Where Salida del Sol Estates's buildings actually sit
93.3% of Salida del Sol Estates's 1,957 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,826 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 6.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Salida del Sol Estates ranks
Salida del Sol Estates's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salida del Sol Estates ranks 3,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 342 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salida del Sol Estates
Salida del Sol Estates's 88th-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.
Hardening a home in Salida del Sol Estates
With 93.3% of Salida del Sol Estates in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Salida del Sol Estates's 3,667-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Salida del Sol Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.