Wixon Valley, TX
Wixon Valley, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wixon Valley's 266 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wixon Valley at the 79th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Wixon Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Wixon Valley's 266 counted buildings, 92.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Wixon Valley ranks
Inside Texas, Wixon Valley sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 77th 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, Wixon Valley ranks 7,293 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 864 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Wixon Valley and the insurance market
Wixon Valley's 77th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 92.5% of Wixon Valley 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 Wixon Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 266 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wixon Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wixon Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.