Skellytown, TX
How exposed is Skellytown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Skellytown at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 449 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Skellytown at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 78.2% of Skellytown's 449 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Skellytown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Skellytown's 100th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Skellytown ranks 169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 4 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Skellytown
At the 100th percentile nationally, Skellytown 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 78.2% of Skellytown'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.
Where Skellytown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Skellytown's 169-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Skellytown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.