Willow Grove, TX
Willow Grove wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Willow Grove at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,255 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Willow Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,255 buildings are counted in Willow Grove, and 73.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 26.1% rated Minimal.
How Willow Grove compares
Inside Texas, Willow Grove sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 70th 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, Willow Grove ranks 9,535 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,247 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Willow Grove
Willow Grove'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 73.9% of Willow Grove in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Willow Grove's figures come from
Willow Grove's 70th-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 Willow Grove's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.