St. Paul (San Patricio), TX
How exposed is St. Paul (San Patricio) to wildfire?
St. Paul (San Patricio)'s 405 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, St. Paul (San Patricio)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of St. Paul (San Patricio)'s 405 counted buildings, 51.4% carry Direct exposure and only 1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
St. Paul (San Patricio) against the rest of the country
There's little gap between St. Paul (San Patricio)'s 83rd national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Paul (San Patricio) ranks 5,528 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 584 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Paul (San Patricio)
St. Paul (San Patricio)'s 83rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in St. Paul (San Patricio)
With 51.4% of St. Paul (San Patricio) 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
St. Paul (San Patricio)'s 83rd-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 St. Paul (San Patricio), see the exposure-zones guide.