The Woodlands, TX
The Woodlands, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts The Woodlands at the 55th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 36,591 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks The Woodlands at the 55th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of The Woodlands's buildings (54.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 36,591 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How The Woodlands compares
The Woodlands ranks lower within Texas (10th percentile statewide) than its 55th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, The Woodlands ranks 14,351 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 285 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,623 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in The Woodlands
The Woodlands's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.3% of The Woodlands'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind The Woodlands's 14,351-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond The Woodlands, see the exposure-zones guide.