West University Place, TX
How exposed is West University Place to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, West University Place lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,555 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West University Place at the 23rd national percentile — 4 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
West University Place rates 100% Minimal exposure against just 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,555 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,555 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
West University Place against the rest of the country
West University Place ranks lower within Texas (1st percentile statewide) than its 19th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West University Place ranks 25,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,775 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
West University Place's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
West University Place's 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
West University Place's 19th-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 University Place, see the exposure-zones guide.