Socorro, TX
How exposed is Socorro to wildfire?
Socorro's 14,434 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places 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 Socorro at the 12th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 23% of Socorro's 14,434 buildings carry Direct exposure and 1.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 14,434 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Socorro compares
Socorro scores 13th nationally and 1st within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Socorro ranks 27,371 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,039 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,785 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Socorro
Socorro's low wildfire rating (13th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Socorro's 75.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Socorro's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 14,434 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Socorro. The exposure-zones guide covers what Socorro's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.