Siesta Acres, TX
Siesta Acres wildfire risk explained
Siesta Acres sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 720 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 Siesta Acres at the 52nd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Siesta Acres (100% of 720 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 0% sit in the Direct zone.
Siesta Acres against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Siesta Acres sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 53rd 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, Siesta Acres ranks 14,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,648 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Siesta Acres and the insurance market
Siesta Acres's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Siesta Acres's 100% 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
Siesta Acres's 53rd-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 Siesta Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.