Batesville, TX
Batesville wildfire risk explained
Batesville sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 722 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Batesville at the 63rd percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Batesville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Batesville's buildings (62.7%) 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.
Where Batesville ranks
Batesville's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Batesville ranks 10,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,430 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,396 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Batesville
Batesville's 66th-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Batesville (62.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Batesville's 66th-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 Batesville, see the exposure-zones guide.