Santa Rita Ranch, TX
Santa Rita Ranch wildfire risk explained
Santa Rita Ranch sits at the 83rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,435 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Santa Rita Ranch at the 81st percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Santa Rita Ranch (68.2% of 1,435 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Santa Rita Ranch ranks
There's little gap between Santa Rita Ranch's 83rd national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Santa Rita Ranch ranks 5,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 585 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Santa Rita Ranch and the insurance market
Santa Rita Ranch's 83rd-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 Santa Rita Ranch
Because 68.2% of Santa Rita Ranch's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Santa Rita Ranch's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Santa Rita Ranch, see the exposure-zones guide.