Wildorado, TX
Wildorado, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wildorado sits at the 89th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 212 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wildorado at the 88th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wildorado's 212 counted buildings, 58% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Wildorado compares
Wildorado's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wildorado ranks 3,448 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,420 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 319 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wildorado
Wildorado's 89th-percentile, very 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 Wildorado
Wildorado's 58% 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.
Where Wildorado's figures come from
Wildorado's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wildorado's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.