Wimberley, TX
Wimberley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wimberley at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,454 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wimberley at the 84th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Wimberley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 79.7% of Wimberley's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 20.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,955 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Wimberley against the rest of the country
Wimberley scores 85th nationally and 73rd 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, Wimberley ranks 4,804 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,385 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 486 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wimberley
Wimberley's 85th-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 Wimberley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wimberley (79.7%), 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
Wimberley's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wimberley, see the exposure-zones guide.