Town of Pecos, TX
How exposed is Town of Pecos to wildfire?
Town of Pecos sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,607 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Town of Pecos at the 55th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Town of Pecos's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Town of Pecos (83.1% of 6,607 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 7.5% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,607 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Town of Pecos ranks
Town of Pecos's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Town of Pecos ranks 14,768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,623 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,644 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 53rd national percentile, Town of Pecos rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Town of Pecos's 83.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Town of Pecos's 14,768-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Town of Pecos, see the exposure-zones guide.