Spring Gardens, TX
Spring Gardens wildfire risk explained
Spring Gardens's 255 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Spring Gardens at the 14th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Spring Gardens's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93.3% of Spring Gardens's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 6.7% Minimal share — a profile where 238 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Spring Gardens compares
There's little gap between Spring Gardens's 12th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spring Gardens ranks 27,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,997 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,787 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Spring Gardens and the insurance market
Spring Gardens's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Spring Gardens
With 93.3% of Spring Gardens in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Spring Gardens's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Spring Gardens, see the exposure-zones guide.