Taft Southwest, TX
How exposed is Taft Southwest to wildfire?
Taft Southwest's 626 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Taft Southwest at the 11th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Taft Southwest's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 95.1% of Taft Southwest's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Taft Southwest against the rest of the country
Taft Southwest scores 10th nationally and 0th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taft Southwest ranks 28,255 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,791 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Taft Southwest and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Taft Southwest rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Taft Southwest
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Taft Southwest gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Taft Southwest's figures come from
Taft Southwest's 10th-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 Taft Southwest's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.