Wellington, TX
How exposed is Wellington to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wellington at the 71st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,543 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wellington at the 67th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wellington's buildings actually sit
85% of Wellington's 1,543 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 9% Direct and 6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Wellington compares
Wellington's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 37 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wellington ranks 9,062 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,975 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,180 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Wellington and the insurance market
At the 71st percentile nationally, Wellington carries the 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 85% of Wellington'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wellington's 9,062-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wellington, see the exposure-zones guide.