Sugar Land, TX
Sugar Land wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Sugar Land at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 43,111 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sugar Land at the 68th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Sugar Land's buildings (63.1% of 43,111) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 43,111 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sugar Land ranks
Inside Texas, Sugar Land sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 65th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sugar Land ranks 11,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 217 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,427 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sugar Land
At the 65th percentile nationally, Sugar Land carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sugar Land's 63.1% 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.
Where Sugar Land's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 43,111 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sugar Land. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sugar Land's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.