Sudan, TX
How exposed is Sudan to wildfire?
Sudan's 657 buildings earn a 97th-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, Sudan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
79.5% of Sudan's 657 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Sudan ranks
Sudan's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sudan ranks 895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,109 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 46 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Sudan and the insurance market
Sudan's 97th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 79.5% of Sudan's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Sudan's figures come from
Sudan's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sudan's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.