Silverton, TX
Silverton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Silverton at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 697 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silverton at the 92nd 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Silverton (68.9% of 697 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Silverton against the rest of the country
Silverton'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, Silverton ranks 2,312 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,701 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 170 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Silverton
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Silverton 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
Silverton's 68.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silverton's 2,312-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Silverton, see the exposure-zones guide.