West Livingston, TX
West Livingston, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores West Livingston at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,024 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Livingston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in West Livingston: 65% of its 3,024 buildings, versus 29.4% Indirect and 5.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where West Livingston ranks
Inside Texas, West Livingston sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 72nd 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, West Livingston ranks 8,746 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,391 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,131 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Livingston
West Livingston's 72nd-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 West Livingston
Because Direct exposure dominates in West Livingston (65%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,024 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Livingston. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Livingston, see the exposure-zones guide.