San Felipe, TX
How exposed is San Felipe to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts San Felipe at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 702 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks San Felipe at the 82nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where San Felipe's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in San Felipe: 97.4% of its 702 buildings, versus 2.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How San Felipe compares
San Felipe ranks lower within Texas (59th percentile statewide) than its 79th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, San Felipe ranks 6,539 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 734 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in San Felipe
San Felipe's 79th-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 San Felipe
San Felipe's 97.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where San Felipe's figures come from
San Felipe's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what San Felipe's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.