Trent, TX
How exposed is Trent to wildfire?
USFS scores Trent at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 250 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Trent at the 58th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Trent's building exposure, zone by zone
58% of Trent's 250 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 42% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Trent compares
Trent's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th 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, Trent ranks 11,990 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,156 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,492 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Trent
Trent's 62nd-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.
Hardening a home in Trent
Even with 58% of Trent outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Trent's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Trent's 11,990-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Trent's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.