Sandy Hollow-Escondidas, TX
How exposed is Sandy Hollow-Escondidas to wildfire?
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's 250 buildings earn a 87th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's buildings actually sit
Of Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's 250 counted buildings, 99.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Sandy Hollow-Escondidas ranks
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sandy Hollow-Escondidas ranks 4,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 404 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas and the insurance market
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas's 87th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Sandy Hollow-Escondidas (99.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 250 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sandy Hollow-Escondidas. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sandy Hollow-Escondidas, see the exposure-zones guide.