Weslaco, TX
Weslaco, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Weslaco lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 15,069 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Weslaco at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where Weslaco's buildings actually sit
Weslaco rates 90.8% Minimal exposure against just 9.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 15,069 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 15,069 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Weslaco against the rest of the country
Weslaco's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weslaco ranks 12,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 983 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,525 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weslaco
Weslaco's 61st-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 Weslaco
Weslaco's 90.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Weslaco's figures come from
Weslaco's 61st-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 Weslaco's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.