Salineño, TX
Salineño wildfire risk explained
Salineño's 101 buildings earn a 94th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salineño at the 93rd percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Salineño's building exposure, zone by zone
101 buildings are counted in Salineño, and 96% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Salineño compares
Salineño's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salineño ranks 2,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 134 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salineño
Salineño's 94th-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Salineño (96% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 101 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Salineño. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Salineño, see the exposure-zones guide.