Southmayd, TX
Southmayd wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Southmayd at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 664 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Southmayd at the 73rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Southmayd's buildings actually sit
Of Southmayd's 664 counted buildings, 73% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Southmayd against the rest of the country
Southmayd's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 43rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southmayd ranks 8,242 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,023 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,032 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Southmayd
Southmayd's high rating (74th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Southmayd
Southmayd's 73% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Southmayd's 8,242-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Southmayd, see the exposure-zones guide.