Siesta Shores, TX
How exposed is Siesta Shores to wildfire?
Siesta Shores sits at the 86th 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 790 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 Shores at the 84th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Siesta Shores's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 90.4% of Siesta Shores's 790 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Siesta Shores ranks
Siesta Shores's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Siesta Shores ranks 4,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,735 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 446 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Siesta Shores and the insurance market
At the 86th percentile nationally, Siesta Shores 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.
Hardening a home in Siesta Shores
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Siesta Shores (90.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Siesta Shores's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Siesta Shores's 4,458-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Siesta Shores's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.