Westdale, TX
Westdale, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Westdale at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 282 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Westdale at the 79th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Westdale's buildings actually sit
282 buildings are counted in Westdale, and 99.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Westdale against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Westdale sits at just the 59th percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Westdale ranks 6,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,141 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 729 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westdale
At the 79th percentile nationally, Westdale 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
Westdale's 99.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Westdale's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Westdale, see the exposure-zones guide.