Whiteface, TX
Whiteface wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Whiteface lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 297 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 Whiteface at the 79th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Whiteface's buildings actually sit
Most of Whiteface's buildings (83.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Whiteface ranks
Whiteface ranks lower within Texas (55th percentile statewide) than its 78th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whiteface ranks 7,042 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 812 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Whiteface and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, Whiteface 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.
Hardening a home in Whiteface
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Whiteface (83.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Whiteface's 7,042-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Whiteface, see the exposure-zones guide.