West Sharyland, TX
West Sharyland, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Sharyland at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 821 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Sharyland at the 75th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 50.4% of West Sharyland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 49.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where West Sharyland ranks
West Sharyland's 73rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Sharyland ranks 8,399 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,066 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
West Sharyland and the insurance market
West Sharyland's high rating (73rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 50.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Sharyland gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
West Sharyland's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Sharyland, see the exposure-zones guide.