Trinidad, TX
Trinidad, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Trinidad at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 776 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Trinidad at the 82nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Trinidad's buildings actually sit
Of Trinidad's 776 counted buildings, 56.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Trinidad compares
Inside Texas, Trinidad sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 81st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Trinidad ranks 6,158 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 678 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Trinidad and the insurance market
Trinidad's 81st-percentile, very 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
Trinidad's 56.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Trinidad's figures come from
Trinidad's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Trinidad's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.