Sweeny, TX
Sweeny wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Sweeny at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,632 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 Sweeny at the 86th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 64.1% of Sweeny's 1,632 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 35.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Sweeny compares
Inside Texas, Sweeny sits at just the 67th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Sweeny ranks 5,656 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 604 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sweeny
At the 82nd percentile nationally, Sweeny carries the very 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.
Hardening a home in Sweeny
Because 64.1% of Sweeny'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 Sweeny's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,632 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sweeny. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sweeny's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.