Valle Vista, TX
Valle Vista wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valle Vista at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 136 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valle Vista's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Valle Vista's building exposure, zone by zone
136 buildings are counted in Valle Vista, and 90.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Valle Vista against the rest of the country
Valle Vista's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valle Vista ranks 2,345 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,470 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 176 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Valle Vista and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Valle Vista 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.
Hardening a home in Valle Vista
Valle Vista's 90.4% 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 Valle Vista's 2,345-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Valle Vista, see the exposure-zones guide.