Sulphur Springs, TX
Sulphur Springs, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sulphur Springs sits at the 71st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,415 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sulphur Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
Where Sulphur Springs's buildings actually sit
7,415 buildings are counted in Sulphur Springs, and 49.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 13.1% in Direct exposure or the 37% rated Minimal. At 7,415 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Sulphur Springs compares
Inside Texas, Sulphur Springs sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 71st 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, Sulphur Springs ranks 9,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,197 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Sulphur Springs and the insurance market
Sulphur Springs's 71st-percentile, 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 Sulphur Springs
Sulphur Springs's 49.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sulphur Springs's 71st-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 Sulphur Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.