Wingate, TX
Wingate wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Wingate at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 110 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wingate at the 71st national percentile — 4 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
60% of Wingate's 110 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 40% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Wingate ranks
Wingate's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wingate ranks 7,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 972 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wingate
Wingate's high rating (75th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wingate (60% 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 Wingate's 7,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wingate, see the exposure-zones guide.