Southlake, TX
Southlake, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Southlake lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 12,673 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Southlake at the 56th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Where Southlake's buildings actually sit
58.3% of Southlake's 12,673 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 12,673 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Southlake compares
Inside Texas, Southlake sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 54th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southlake ranks 14,419 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,207 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,626 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
At the 54th national percentile, Southlake rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Southlake's 58.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Southlake's 14,419-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Southlake, see the exposure-zones guide.