San Elizario, TX
How exposed is San Elizario to wildfire?
San Elizario's 4,094 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Elizario's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
San Elizario's building exposure, zone by zone
San Elizario rates 59.8% Minimal exposure against just 40.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,094 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where San Elizario ranks
San Elizario scores 6th nationally and 0th 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, San Elizario ranks 29,674 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,795 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in San Elizario
San Elizario's low wildfire rating (6th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 59.8% of San Elizario outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,094 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for San Elizario. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond San Elizario, see the exposure-zones guide.