Taft, TX
Taft, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Taft at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,421 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 Taft at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Taft's building exposure, zone by zone
Taft rates 92.1% Minimal exposure against just 8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,421 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Taft against the rest of the country
Taft 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 ranks 28,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,534 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,792 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Taft and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Taft 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
With 92.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Taft gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Taft's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Taft, see the exposure-zones guide.