Beckville, TX
Beckville, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Beckville's 503 buildings earn a 74th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Beckville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Where Beckville's buildings actually sit
Most of Beckville's buildings (80.5%) 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.
Beckville against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Beckville sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 74th 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, Beckville ranks 8,075 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,296 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 993 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beckville
Beckville's 74th-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
Beckville's 80.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beckville's 74th-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 Beckville, see the exposure-zones guide.