South Houston, TX
South Houston wildfire risk explained
USFS scores South Houston at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,143 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, South Houston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Where South Houston's buildings actually sit
Only 0.8% of South Houston's 6,143 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,143 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
South Houston against the rest of the country
South Houston's 34th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Houston ranks 20,690 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,823 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,746 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
South Houston's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
South Houston's 99.2% 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 South Houston's figures come from
South Houston's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Houston's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.