Sparks, TX
Sparks, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sparks's 1,961 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sparks's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,961 buildings are counted in Sparks, and 41.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.5% in Direct exposure or the 18.1% rated Minimal.
How Sparks compares
Sparks scores 15th 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, Sparks ranks 26,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,588 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,780 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Sparks and the insurance market
At the 15th national percentile, Sparks rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Sparks
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sparks (41.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Sparks's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sparks, see the exposure-zones guide.