Snyder, TX
Snyder wildfire risk explained
Snyder's 6,984 buildings earn a 89th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Snyder at the 87th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Snyder's buildings actually sit
6,984 buildings are counted in Snyder, and 66% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.7% in Direct exposure or the 21.4% rated Minimal. At 6,984 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Snyder against the rest of the country
Snyder's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snyder ranks 3,480 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,474 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 321 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Snyder
At the 89th percentile nationally, Snyder 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 66% of Snyder'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Snyder's 3,480-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Snyder, see the exposure-zones guide.