Whitehouse, TX
Whitehouse, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Whitehouse sits at the 70th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,130 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Whitehouse at the 71st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Whitehouse's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Whitehouse (80.3% of 3,130 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.7% sit in the Direct zone.
How Whitehouse compares
Whitehouse ranks lower within Texas (32nd percentile statewide) than its 70th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whitehouse ranks 9,373 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,229 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitehouse
Whitehouse's 70th-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 Whitehouse
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Whitehouse (80.3% 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 Whitehouse's 9,373-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Whitehouse, see the exposure-zones guide.