Southside Place, TX
Southside Place, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Southside Place sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 672 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Southside Place's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Southside Place's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Southside Place's 672 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Southside Place ranks
There's little gap between Southside Place's 14th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southside Place ranks 27,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,783 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Southside Place and the insurance market
Southside Place's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
Hardening a home in Southside Place
Southside Place's 100% 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 Southside Place's 27,278-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Southside Place, see the exposure-zones guide.