Tanquecitos South Acres, TX
Tanquecitos South Acres wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tanquecitos South Acres lands at the 76th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 240 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tanquecitos South Acres at the 72nd percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
240 buildings are counted in Tanquecitos South Acres, and 92.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Tanquecitos South Acres against the rest of the country
Tanquecitos South Acres ranks lower within Texas (50th percentile statewide) than its 76th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tanquecitos South Acres ranks 7,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,485 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 896 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tanquecitos South Acres
Tanquecitos South Acres's 76th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Tanquecitos South Acres (92.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tanquecitos South Acres's 7,452-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tanquecitos South Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.