Seco Mines, TX
Seco Mines, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Seco Mines at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 235 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Seco Mines at the 47th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 95.3% of Seco Mines's 235 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Seco Mines against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Seco Mines sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 48th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seco Mines ranks 16,343 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,696 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Seco Mines
Seco Mines's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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
Seco Mines's 95.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Seco Mines's 48th-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 Seco Mines, see the exposure-zones guide.