Wyldwood, TX
Wyldwood wildfire risk explained
Wyldwood's 1,966 buildings earn a 71st-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wyldwood at the 71st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wyldwood's buildings actually sit
Of Wyldwood's 1,966 counted buildings, 94.2% 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.
Wyldwood against the rest of the country
Wyldwood's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyldwood ranks 9,250 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,207 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wyldwood
Wyldwood's 71st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Wyldwood's 94.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Wyldwood's 71st-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 Wyldwood, see the exposure-zones guide.