Blue Mound, TX
How exposed is Blue Mound to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blue Mound lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 918 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Mound at the 51st percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
Blue Mound's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.4% of Blue Mound's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Blue Mound compares
Inside Texas, Blue Mound sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Blue Mound ranks 15,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,688 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
At the 49th national percentile, Blue Mound rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Blue Mound
With 97.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Blue Mound gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Blue Mound's 49th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blue Mound, see the exposure-zones guide.