Snook, TX
How exposed is Snook to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Snook lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 353 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Snook at the 63rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 76.8% of Snook's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 23.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 271 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Snook compares
Snook's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snook ranks 12,115 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,507 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Snook and the insurance market
Snook's 62nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Snook
Because Direct exposure dominates in Snook (76.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Snook's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Snook, see the exposure-zones guide.