Valentine, TX
Valentine, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Valentine sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 170 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valentine at the 94th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Valentine's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 67.1% of Valentine's 170 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Valentine against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Valentine's 91st national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Texas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valentine ranks 2,725 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,049 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 224 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Valentine and the insurance market
At the 91st percentile nationally, Valentine carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 67.1% of Valentine'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.
Where Valentine's figures come from
Valentine's 91st-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 Valentine's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.