Wildwood, TX
How exposed is Wildwood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wildwood lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 746 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wildwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Wildwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Wildwood's 746 counted buildings, 85.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Wildwood ranks
Wildwood scores 83rd nationally and 69th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wildwood ranks 5,436 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,170 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 571 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
Wildwood's very high rating (83rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Wildwood
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wildwood (85.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wildwood's 5,436-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wildwood, see the exposure-zones guide.