Caney City, TX
How exposed is Caney City to wildfire?
Caney City's 270 buildings earn a 68th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Caney City at the 69th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Where Caney City's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Caney City: 47% of its 270 buildings, versus 25.6% Indirect and 27.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Caney City against the rest of the country
Caney City's 68th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caney City ranks 10,226 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,519 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,339 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Caney City
Caney City's 68th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Caney City (47%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Caney City's 68th-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 Caney City, see the exposure-zones guide.