Aurora, TX
How exposed is Aurora to wildfire?
Aurora sits at the 87th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 861 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aurora at the 87th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Aurora's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 95.6% of Aurora's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.6% Indirect share and far above its 2.8% Minimal share — a profile where 823 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Aurora against the rest of the country
Aurora scores 87th nationally and 77th within Texas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurora ranks 4,260 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 413 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Aurora's 87th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Aurora
Aurora's 95.6% 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.
Where Aurora's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aurora's 4,260-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aurora's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.