Winona, TX
Winona, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winona lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 344 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winona's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Winona's buildings (65.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Winona against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Winona sits at just the 56th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Winona ranks 6,856 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 781 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Winona and the insurance market
Winona's high rating (78th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 65.7% of Winona's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Winona's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winona, see the exposure-zones guide.