Woodway, TX
How exposed is Woodway to wildfire?
USFS scores Woodway at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,039 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Woodway's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 51.5% of Woodway's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32.7% Direct and 15.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Woodway against the rest of the country
Woodway ranks lower within Texas (30th percentile statewide) than its 70th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodway ranks 9,565 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,253 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Woodway and the insurance market
At the 70th percentile nationally, Woodway carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Woodway's 51.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodway's 9,565-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodway, see the exposure-zones guide.