Sheffield, TX
How exposed is Sheffield to wildfire?
USFS scores Sheffield at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 310 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sheffield at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Sheffield's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sheffield's buildings (72.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Sheffield against the rest of the country
Sheffield's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sheffield ranks 2,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,378 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 159 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sheffield
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Sheffield carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 72.6% of Sheffield'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 310 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sheffield. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sheffield, see the exposure-zones guide.